Ceramics and Composite Materials

Nasrin Al Nasiri has joined Imperial in December 2010 as a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her PhD was about investigating the influence of microstructure of SiC materials on the mechanical behavior at room temperature. She was the first to quantify slow crack growth of SiC at ambient conditions. She has obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. After her PhD, she worked on the oxidation behavior of SiC ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and designing new environmental barrier coatings. She has been awarded with the Imperial College Junior Research fellowship in November 2016 for a funding of three years. In September 2018, she has started her Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship where she will be investigating the performance of ceramic composites and developing coating technologies for aerospace, energy and automotive sectors.