Dr Skamniotis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science 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 diverse solid mechanics problems, including the creep-fatigue of high temperature gas trubine components, the hydrogen embrittlement of nuclear fission alloys and the large-strain fracture of soft materials. 

His research group focuses entirely on the modelling structures-materials under extreme thermal-mechanical loads, 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.

Dr Skamniotis has been awarded the EPSRC NIA grant ‘Discrete Dislocation Modelling of Thermal Fatigue in Nickel alloys’ and co-leads the £9.5m EPSRC grant ‘Making Hydrogen Work in Zero Carbon Jet Engines’.