Professor Kathy Christofidou
PhD, MEng, MBA
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Chair in Digital and Sustainable Metallurgy and Advanced Metals Processing Research Area Lead for Royce at the University of 91Ö±²¥
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School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Katerina (Kathy) Christofidou joined the department in 2019, and was appointed Chair in Digital and Sustainable Metallurgy in April 2024. She is currently the Director of Recruitment for the department and leads the Advanced Metals Processing research area for the Henry Royce Institute.
Prior to this, she held roles at the University of Cambridge, as part of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre, and the University of Manchester, where she also worked in close collaboration with the Henry Royce Institute.
She holds a PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and an MEng in Aerospace Materials Engineering from Imperial College London.
Kathy's research focuses on bridging high performance alloy design and advanced manufacturing following two key strands; a) accelerated. digitalised methods of alloy development with emphasis on manufacturing performance and b) advanced diffraction methods for non-destructive alloy evaluation applied to high performance components.
As part of her collaboration with Rolls-Royce PLC, she has developed new polycrystalline Ni-based superalloys for turbine disc applications, as well as exploring strategies for the design of high-temperature materials amenable to laser-based additive layer manufacturing. Her work in this area was recognised with the 2022 IOM3 Grünfeld Award and Medal highlighting her contributions and impact to industry.
In addition, a major area of her research interests is that of high entropy alloys and the possibilities that these materials offer for expanding our understanding of physical metallurgy beyond a single base element and the associated thermodynamic principles governing this behaviour.
- Research interests
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- High performance structural metallics including Ni and Co-based superalloys, High Entropy Alloys/Multi-principal element alloys, Cu-based alloys
- Additive Manufacturing
- Alloy design and microstructure engineering
- Advanced Diffraction Techniques
- Digital Metallurgy and High throughput testing methodologies
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Materialia, 102163-102163.
- . Advanced Engineering Materials.
- . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 55(3), 791-802.
- . Procedia CIRP, 123, 310-315.
- . Scientific Reports, 13.
- . Data in Brief, 109299-109299.
- . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
- . Wear, 204786-204786.
- . Materialia, 101701-101701.
- . Materialia, 26.
- . Data-Centric Engineering, 3.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 926.
- . Materials Science and Technology.
- . Materials Science and Technology.
- . Materials Science and Technology.
- . Coatings, 13(6), 1004-1004.
- . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
- . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the IoM3 Materials Chemistry Committee
- Member of the TMS High Temperature Alloys Committee
- Recipient of funding allocation from the Women in Engineering Visitor Funding Scheme at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- 2019 Materials travel award
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