• Creep & High-Temperature Deformation
• Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging (ECCI)
• Microstructure Engineering of Creep-Resistant Alloys
• Additively Manufactured Alloys: Microstructure & Performance

Our research spans the fundamental and applied aspects of high-temperature alloy behaviour, with a unified focus on understanding and engineering materials that perform reliably under extreme thermomechanical conditions. We investigate deformation mechanisms — including creep, dynamic recrystallization, and dynamic strain aging — across nickel-base superalloys, cobalt-base alloys, and magnesium-base systems, developing processing maps that define safe hot-working windows. Complementing this, we advance controlled Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging (ECCI) as a high-resolution SEM-based technique for characterizing dislocations, stacking faults, and crystal defects in a correlative framework with EBSD and low-voltage imaging. On the design side, we engineer alloy microstructures — through deliberate control of eutectic phase morphology, precipitate distributions, and second-phase spatial arrangement — to maximise creep resistance across rare-earth-free magnesium alloys, IN718, multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs), and cobalt-base superalloys. Cutting across all these themes is a focused effort on additively manufactured alloys, where we examine how as-built microstructural features such as columnar grains, microsegregation, and solidification texture govern creep, rupture, hot corrosion, and fatigue performance in aerospace-grade materials.