Stella Pedrazzini
- Research Associate
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2014 DPhil Materials Science (University of Oxford)
2010 MEng Materials Science (University of Oxford)
Research
Dr Stella Pedrazzini is a post-doc working on oxidation and hot corrosion of nickel superalloys, both single crystals and polycrystalline as part of the Rolls-Royce-EPSRC strategic partnership.
Her PhD was on characterisation, mechanical properties and thermal stability of nano-quasicrystalline aluminium matrix composites used in car pistons and airplane fuselage, completed in 2014 from the University of Oxford. After that, she joined the Oxford Atom Probe group for 3 years as a post-doc, splitting her time between two projects: (1) a multi-scale study of environmental degradation due to oxidative and corrosive conditions under applied stress in nickel based superalloys, projects industrially co-funded by Rolls-Royce plc., Siemens and Good Fabrications Performance Exhausts. (2) atomic scale characterisation of radiation damage on tuned perovskites for nuclear fusion and fission applications, funded by EPSRC.
Her main expertise lies in characterisation (SEM/TEM/FIB/XRD/APT/TKD/EDX...), mechanical testing (mostly quasi-static, some dynamic), thermal analysis (DSC, TGA...) and analytical modelling of the mechanical properties of metals, alloys and metal-matrix composites.
