Bcc-superalloys and tungsten based alloys for advanced nuclear applications
Matthew received an MEng in Nuclear Engineering from the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham in 2016 and completed his DPhil in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford in 2021. Matthew’s doctoral research investigated radiation damage and transmutation induced effects in neutron and heavy-ion irradiated tungsten/W-Re-Os alloys for nuclear fusion applications. His doctoral work was sponsored by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and employed a combined experimental and computational approach including Atom Probe Tomography (APT) and Atomistic Kinetic Monte Carlo (AKMC) simulations. After graduating in 2021 Matthew has worked as a Materials Engineer at Oxford Sigma Ltd. and as a research fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, developing new high-throughput techniques to screen candidate high entropy alloys for radiation tolerance. Matthew joined the Materials for Extremes group at UoB in 2023 and is working on radiation damage in materials and the development of new bcc-superalloys, refractory high-entropy alloys and novel tungsten alloys.