DrStella Pedrazzini
Associate Professor
Department of Materials - Faculty of Engineering
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- Associate ProfessorDepartment of Materials - Faculty of Engineering
- Imperial College London, Department of Materials, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 1AZ, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Background
Dr Stella Pedrazzini studied for an MEng in Materials Science at Trinity College, Oxford between 2006 -2010. Her research project focussed on nano-quasicrystalline Al-matrix composites for high temperature applications, a topic which she continued to work on during her DPhil, also at Oxford, between 2010-2014. For the following 3 years she remained at Oxford as a post-doc in the atom probe tomography (APT) group, splitting her time between 2 projects: (1) an atom probe study of radiation damage in perovskite superconductors for fusion applications and (2) environmental degradation in nickel superalloys exposed to corrosive and oxidising compounds.
She moved to Cambridge in 2017 for a post-doc in the Rolls-Royce UTC, where she continued to work on oxidation and hot corrosion of nickel superalloys and tutored 1st year Engineering students for Churchill College. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3) (FIMMM) and a member of their High Temperature Materials Committee, and the Materials Research Society (MRS) High Temperature Materials Committee.
She co-supervised a variety of industrially sponsored student projects in collaboration with Rolls-Royce plc, Shell, EdF Energy, Knauf Insulation and other companies, as well as working on her own collaborative projects with the Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is currently involved in the set up of a new national facility for cryogenic microscopy at Imperial college, funded by EPSRC.
In 2019 she received a 5-year (extended to 6) EPSRC Early Career fellowship and an RAEng Associate Research Fellowship to investigate corrosion of nickel superalloys, which she is currently funded by.
Studentships
We are a happy, diverse and friendly group, come join us!
PhD studentships and summer internships are advertised every year around December/January, MScs/MEng get advertised during the summer.
Research Interests
Over the last few years my research has focused on metals electrochemistry. I use advanced characterisation techniques such as atom probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy to study the effects of corrosion in metallic systems and explain the mechanisms. My work is very applied and performed in collaboration with industrial partners.
Stella and most of her students and post-docs are STEM ambassadors, enquire about activities available by emailing Stella. We regularly run workshops, tours and talks for schools. Stella also represents Imperial College on the naitonal outreach network Discover Materials.
Dr Stella Pedrazzini studied for an MEng in Materials Science at Trinity College, Oxford between 2006 -2010. Her research project focussed on nano-quasicrystalline Al-matrix composites for high temperature applications, a topic which she continued to work on during her DPhil, also at Oxford, between 2010-2014. For the following 3 years she remained at Oxford as a post-doc in the atom probe tomography (APT) group, splitting her time between 2 projects: (1) an atom probe study of radiation damage in perovskite superconductors for fusion applications and (2) environmental degradation in nickel superalloys exposed to corrosive and oxidising compounds.
She moved to Cambridge in 2017 for a post-doc in the Rolls-Royce UTC, where she continued to work on oxidation and hot corrosion of nickel superalloys and tutored 1st year Engineering students for Churchill College. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3) (FIMMM) and a member of their High Temperature Materials Committee, and the Materials Research Society (MRS) High Temperature Materials Committee.
She co-supervised a variety of industrially sponsored student projects in collaboration with Rolls-Royce plc, Shell, EdF Energy, Knauf Insulation and other companies, as well as working on her own collaborative projects with the Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is currently involved in the set up of a new national facility for cryogenic microscopy at Imperial college, funded by EPSRC.
In 2019 she received a 5-year (extended to 6) EPSRC Early Career fellowship and an RAEng Associate Research Fellowship to investigate corrosion of nickel superalloys, which she is currently funded by.
Studentships
We are a happy, diverse and friendly group, come join us!
PhD studentships and summer internships are advertised every year around December/January, MScs/MEng get advertised during the summer.
Research Interests
Over the last few years my research has focused on metals electrochemistry. I use advanced characterisation techniques such as atom probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy to study the effects of corrosion in metallic systems and explain the mechanisms. My work is very applied and performed in collaboration with industrial partners.
Stella and most of her students and post-docs are STEM ambassadors, enquire about activities available by emailing Stella. We regularly run workshops, tours and talks for schools. Stella also represents Imperial College on the naitonal outreach network Discover Materials.