Ceramics and Composite Materials

Biography

Eugenio Zapata-Solvas has completed his Ph.D. studies on the role of grain boundaries in the plasticity of advanced ceramics at the University of Seville in 2008. Then, he carried out postdoctoral studies about physical and chemical properties of UHTCs at Imperial College London and about flash sintering of advanced ceramics at the University of Oxford. He was a research fellow for 3 years of the Materials Science Institute of Seville working on high temperature physical properties of UHTCs and new technologies for ceramics sintering. Since August 2015, he joined the Centre of Nuclear Engineering of Imperial College London as a Research Associate to work in MAX phases development for nuclear applications. He has published around 25 papers in indexed journals.

Research Interest

Materials Science, Structural Stability, Hypersonic Vehicle, Ultra-high temperature ceramics, nuclear