Transition Talks: Materials Challenges & Opportunities for Fusion Reactors

Dr Ed Pickering

Senior Lecturer, Materials Engineering, University of Manchester

Ed was appointed as Lecturer in Metallurgy at the Department of Materials in late 2015, and was made Senior Lecturer in 2019.  Before arriving in Manchester, Ed completed his undergraduate degree at University of Cambridge (2011) followed by a PhD at the same institution (2014), where he worked in the Phase Transformations and Complex Properties research group.  He was a Research Associate in Cambridge’s Rolls-Royce UTC for one year following his PhD. 

Ed is Research Area Lead for the Advanced Metals Processing theme of the Henry Royce Institute. He sits on the Management Boards of the Advanced Metallics System CDT and the Fusion CDT, and is a member of the IOM3's Materials Chemistry Committee. He has been the recipient of the IOM3's Frank Fitzgerald Medal (2017) and Grunfeld Memorial Medal (2021), both for his work on steels.  

Dr Greg Brittles

Senior HTS Magnet Engineer / UKRI Future Leaders Fellow , Tokamak Energy Ltd

Dr Brittles is a Senior Magnet Engineer at Tokamak Energy, and also holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship specialising in the development of REBCO HTS magnets for fusion energy and other applications.

He has a masters degree in physics from Durham University (graduating in 2012) and a doctorate in superconducting materials from Oxford University (graduating in 2016). His core expertise is in the design and fabrication of high-field HTS coils.

Dr Mary-Alice Cusentino

Post-Doc, Sandia National Lab

Research

Molecular dynamics modeling of plasma material interactions for fusion reactors

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Education

PhD in Energy Science and Engineering - University of Tennessee

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mohamad Abdallah

Head of Reactor Fuel Systems, Tokamak Energy

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