Biography
Naufal is a DPhil student in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, within the Solid Mechanics and Materials Group. His research focuses on the corrosion fatigue behaviour of magnesium-based metamaterials fabricated via additive manufacturing (AM) for biomedical applications and lightweight structural. He holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung and an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he worked on expandable lattice structures for bone fixation. Before joining Oxford, he was a research assistant at ITB, researching computational modelling of magnesium degradation.
Current Research Project
Corrosion fatigue of additively manufactured magnesium metamaterials
Research Interest
Naufal’s research focuses on understanding and improving the corrosion fatigue behaviour of magnesium-based metamaterials for lightweight structural and biomedical applications. By combining additive manufacturing (AM) with experimental characterisation, finite element, and corrosion modelling, his work aims to control the mechanical performance and degradation behaviour of magnesium lattice structures throughout their lifetime. Through the design of novel Mg-based architectures and surface treatments, he seeks to enable advanced bioresorbable and high-performance magnesium components.
