Alumni
LightForm Group Alumni
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Dr Alex Cassell
PDRA
Dr Alex Cassell has worked on several research programmes since completion of a PhD on the environmentally assisted degradation mechanisms in light alloys. Working in the Corrosion and Protection Centre he has expertise on the multi-scale characterisation of high performance aluminium alloys. His research has included the study of hydrogen embrittlement (HE) and stress corrosion mechanisms in light alloys, the...
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Dr Jinghua Zheng
PDRA
Dr Jinghua Zheng completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, during which she developed a constrained ageing technique for residual stress reduction in aluminium aircraft components. She also established and validated physically-based constitutive equations and for FE models of residual stress and yield strength distributions in components. Based at Imperial College London, Jinghua’s...
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Natalie Shannon
Project Manager
Natalie Shannon (LightForm Project Manager) has joined LightForm as Project Manager, previously the Project Manager for The University of Manchester - Study China programme, a UK government funded programme and the largest China outbound mobility programme delivered in the UK.
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Dr Nicholas Gruel
Research Software Engineer
Dr Nicolas Gruel completed a PhD in astrophysics and a Post-Doc in software development for data acquisition, analysis and simulation of astronomical images. As the lead developer for the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Nicolas was accountable for creating the data pipeline to analyse 1.4 TB of data per day,...
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Dr Paloma Hidalgo-Manrique
PDRA
Dr Paloma Hidalgo-Manrique completed a PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid, focusing on the processing of fine-grained microstructures by accumulative roll bonding, and how it can be used to produce material that can be superplastically formed more easily. Since then she has worked on the fundamental deformation mechanisms in Mg alloys as part of LATEST2 and project MAGMAN ....
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Dr Peter Crowther
Research Software Engineer
Peter Crowther did a PhD in Physics at the University of Bristol, working on the study of the structure of glassy materials. This involved both experimental microscopy and molecular simulation work and the development of new algorithms for processing and analysing the data. Peter now works as a Research Software Engineer at The University of Manchester in the...
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Dr Sumeet Mishra
PDRA
Dr Sumeet Mishra recently completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur with a thesis on experimental and theoretical investigations of the effect of precipitates on mechanical behaviour and deformation texture of an aluminium-magnesium-silicon alloy. Prior to joining The University of Manchester, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore where his research work involved understanding...