Professor Panos Tsakiropoulos
DEng Min Eng-Metallurgy MMet PhD
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy
+44 114 222 5960
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Panos Tsakiropoulos studied Mining Engineering and Metallurgy at the National Technical University of Athens, with postgraduate studies and research in the Department of Metallurgy of the University of Sheffield.
He joined the University of Surrey in 1986 as a New Blood Lecturer, was promoted to Reader in 1991 and was appointed to the Chair of Metallurgy of the University in 1996. He returned to Sheffield in 2006.
- Research interests
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Research interests are in the design and development of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys and composites for the energy, transport and aerospace industries and for biomedical applications via process-microstructure-property studies. Materials processing under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions is also researched as part of the alloy development. The emphasis of the research is on establishing (i) the effects of processing on the microstructure and properties of structural engineering materials and (ii) how processing can be tailored to particular engineering requirements for desirable microstructures and properties. Currently, alloys of Fe, Mo, Nb and Zr are under investigation.
- Alloy Development: Intermetallics, Exotics, Nb Alloys, Mo Alloys
- Study of the roles of heterogeneities, in-homogeneities and non-uniformities in materials processing and phase transformations
- Study of Alloying Related Phenomena at the Electronic Level
- Non-Equilibrium Processing of Alloys
Research group
- Dr Claire Utton
- Mr Amir Nanpazi
- Mr Jack Nelson
- Miss Eleftheria Karagianni
- Miss Ofelia Hernandez-Negrete
- Mr Andrew Tweddle
- Mr Gary Bywater
- Miss Zheng Xu
- Mr Boniface Anazodo
- Mr Conor McCaughey
- Mr Ioannis Papadimitriou
- Mrs Monica Balboa Garcia
- Mr Jiang Zhao
- Mr Mohammad Hossein Ghadyani
- Mr Edward Gallagher Project student
- Mr Arthur Resende Visiting academic staff
- Professor Armando Cirilo De Souza
Research centres
Key projects:
- Study of Alloying Behaviour in Intermetallics and Advanced Alloys
- Process-Microstructure-Property Studies in Nb Alloys
- Development of Mo Alloys
- Development of Oxidation Resistant High-Temperature Alloys
- Study of the roles of segregations and inclusions in thermomechanical processing and mechanical properties
- Development of materials for gas turbine technologies for hydrogen-rich syngas combustion
- Publications
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- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the Refractory Metals and Materials Committee, TMS
- Member of EPSRC Materials College
- Adviser to overseas Academies of Science, Research Councils and Research Agencies on Materials R&D
- Adviser to International Metals/Materials Associations on Materials research, teaching and continuous professional development
- Adviser to overseas Universities on Engineering research and teaching
- Bodossaki Foundation Award, 1975
- Burton Medal and Prize, University of Sheffield, 1981
- Elegant Work Prize, IoM, 1995