Biography
Dr Skamniotis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London and held previous placements at King's College and Leicester (2023-2025). He was awarded his PhD at Imperial College (2017 Unwin prize for best PhD), followed by postdoctoral research at the Oxford Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering group (2018-2022). He has first-authored 22 publications on computational modelling of extremely diverse solid mechanics problems, including the Creep-Fatigue of high temperature gas turbine blades, the Hydrogen Embrittlement of Nuclear fission alloys and the oral-gastric breakdown of soft foods.
Christos co-leads the £9.5m EPSRC grant ‘Making Hydrogen Work in Zero Carbon Jet Engines’ and leads the EPSRC NIA grant ‘Discrete Dislocation Modelling of Thermal Fatigue in Nickel alloys’. He leads a research group focusing entirely on modelling structures-materials under extreme environments, including Fusion breeding blankets under irradiated conditions (UKAEA-funded), cooling systems for Hypersonic leading edges/combustors (MOD-funded) and cryogenic heat exchangers for hydrogen-fuelled jet engines.
Research Interest
- Cyclic thermomechanical stresses in Aeroengine & Fusion/Fission components
- Thermal protection systems for Hypersonic flight
- High temperature metals & ceramics
- Crystal Plasticity - Discrete Dislocation
- Plasticity Finite Element modelling
Current Research project
Making Hydrogen work in Zero Carbon Jet Engines
Research Groups
DPhil Opportunities
2 x PDRA positions (3 years each) will be advertised soon.
3 PhD positions are now available: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords=christos+skamniotis
