Dr Stella Pedrazzini - Imperial College London

Dr Pedrazzini’s Fellowship will lead a research programme employing state-of-the-art experimental and computational techniques to provide new, fundamental insights into the environmental degradation of nickel superalloys and steels because of the corrosive gaseous species they encounter in use. He has published some preliminary work from his corrosion and oxidation research programme, though the full potential benefits for the development of corrosion resistant, high temperature materials, have barely been explored. He plans to address these questions through advanced characterisation of samples exposed to corrosive environments in laboratory furnaces, during high temperature mechanical tests, and through a study of ex-service components provided by his industrial collaborators. The results will then be used to design a new generation of alloys, whose corrosion resistance will be tailored to their specific applications.