Dr. Pedro A. Ferreirós is an experimental metallurgist focussed on the design & development of new alloys for nuclear
power reactors and gas turbines. There are 2 types of alloys where he is specialized. The first type are Fe-Al base alloys with coherent precipitation for high temperature applications and the second type are Zr based alloys for use as structural material in nuclear power reactors. As a mechanical engineer he completed his PhD in materials science in 2016 at the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) in Argentina, where he worked as a researcher until 2020.
In 2021, as a Research Fellow he joined the Alloys for Extreme Environments group of the School of Metallurgy & Materials to develop zirconium base alloys, ferritic superalloys and high entropy alloys. He is Lecturer in “Solidification” and “Metal Forming” at the Sabato Institute (Argentina).
Techniques employed: TEM, SEM, EDS, XRD, DSC, EPMA, mechanical testing, others.