{"id":14,"date":"2020-07-22T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4XE\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:33:06","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Alexander (Sandy) Knowles<\/h2>\n

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Sandy Knowles is Professor of Nuclear Materials & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow <\/span>in the School of Metallurgy & Materials, University of Birmingham. He leads the Materials for Extremes research group<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is an experimental metallurgist focused on the design & development of new alloys for extreme environments, including nuclear fusion, fission and aerospace gas turbines. He is a forerunner in the development of new \u201cbcc superalloys\u201d. Unlike current \u03b3-\u03b3\u2019 nickel superalloys, \u03b2-\u03b2\u2019 bcc superalloys make use of a bcc tungsten, titanium or steel matrix, with their higher melting points, for increased operating temperatures. This work, as well as his work on commercial alloys and \u2018high entropy alloys\u2019 (HEAs), is supported by industry partnerships with: UK National Nuclear Laboratory (UKNNL), UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), \u00a0TIMET and Roll-Royce plc.<\/p>\n

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Sandy is actively involved in science policy. He was selected as a Foundation for Science and Technology<\/a> 2020-21 Foundation Future Leader, a policy action network between academia, industry and policy. He is on the UK Fusion Materials national steering group, and editorial team for the UK Fusion Materials Roadmap 2021-2040<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Professor Alexander (Sandy) Knowles Sandy Knowles is Professor of Nuclear Materials & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the School of Metallurgy & Materials, University of Birmingham. He leads the Materials for Extremes research group. He is an experimental metallurgist focused on the design & development of new alloys for extreme environments, including nuclear fusion, fission … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Professor Alexander (Sandy) Knowles Sandy Knowles is Professor of Nuclear Materials & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the School of Metallurgy & Materials, University of Birmingham. He leads the Materials for Extremes research group. He is an experimental metallurgist focused on the design & development of new alloys for extreme environments, including nuclear fusion, fission and aerospace gas turbines. He is a forerunner in the development of new \u201cbcc superalloys\u201d. Unlike current \u03b3-\u03b3\u2019 nickel superalloys, \u03b2-\u03b2\u2019 bcc superalloys make use of a bcc tungsten, titanium or steel matrix, with their higher melting points, for increased operating temperatures. This work, as…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"Robert Heymer","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/author\/rxh662\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/M4X\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}