We are a group of four academics with a common interest on the fundamentals of corrosion fatigue and its implications for engineering service. We have a track record of basic and applied research in the discipline of structural integrity with numerous industrial connections across the nuclear, hydrogen, wind, Oil&Gas and aerospace sectors. Some information about ourselves is provided below.
Dr Martínez-Pañeda is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) in Mechanics of Materials and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Imperial College London, where he leads the Mechanics of Infrastructure Materials Lab. Prior to joining Imperial College, he was an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr Martínez-Pañeda has published more than 75 scientific papers in the best journals in the field and received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships for his contributions. Among others, he is the recipient of RILEM’s Gustavo Colonetti Medal, SEMNI’s Simó Prize, IMechE’s Prestige Award for Risk Reduction in Mechanical Engineering and the Royal Academy of Engineering UK’s Young Engineer of the Year award.
Ali Mehmanparast is a Professor of Structural Integrity at University of Strathclyde. He is a Chartered Engineer of IMechE, Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Prof. Mehmanparast’s research is mainly focussed on the design optimisation, life extension and structural integrity assessment of Offshore Wind Turbines. Prof. Mehmanparast is the Co-Investigator and Manager of the Cranfield-Oxford-Strathclyde Universities EPSRC-funded Renewable Energy Marine Structures Centre for Doctoral Training (REMS CDT).
Nicolas Larrosa is Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol and a "Ramon y Cajal" fellow at the University of Seville. His work focuses on materials, engineering, and structural integrity, supporting continued safe operation of nuclear, wind offshore and oil and gas industries. He is the founder of the Structural Integrity Course, the Director of Bristol Nuclear MSc, sits in various panels including BS 7910, BS 7608 and TAGSI and is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
M. Castelluccio obtained his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) where he studied the early stages of fatigue damage by explicitly modelling cracks meandering through the microstructure. Later, he joined the Component Science and Mechanics department at Sandia National Laboratories (USA) where he worked on integrated constitutive models and multiscale modelling of components. Currently, he holds a Senior Research Lecturer position at Cranfield University (UK) where he studies the mechanical response of metallic materials at multiple scales. His work integrates microstructural attributes with manufacturing routes to develop physics-based models for fatigue and fracture. He has received the EPSRC New Investigator Grant and has been supported by NSF (USA) and Rolls-Royce among others.