Dr Skamniotis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London (previously King's College and Leicester 2023-2025) and Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He was awarded his PhD at Imperial in 2017 (Unwin prize for best PhD), followed by postdoctoral research at the Oxford Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering group (2018-2022). He has first-authored more than 22 publications on computational modelling of extremely diverse solid mechanics problems, including the Creep-Fatigue of high temperature gas turbine blades, the Hydrogen Embrittlement of Nuclear fission alloys and the oral-gastric breakdown of soft foods. Christos co-leads the £9.5m EPSRC grant ‘Making Hydrogen Work in Zero Carbon Jet Engines’ and leads the EPSRC NIA grant ‘Discrete Dislocation Modelling of Thermal Fatigue in Nickel alloys’. He leads a research group focusing entirely on modelling structures-materials under extreme environments, including Fusion breeding blankets under irradiated conditions (UKAEA-funded), cooling systems for Hypersonic leading edges/combustors (MOD-funded) and cryogenic heat exchangers for hydrogen-fuelled jet engines.