Skip to main content
Menu
Professor Reece Oosterbeek

Professor

Reece Oosterbeek BE ME PhD MIMMM AFHEA

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College

Biography

Professor Oosterbeek is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science, and a member of the Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering Group. His research focuses on developing new materials for medical implants, utilising approaches such as novel mechanical metamaterials and bioresorbable composites. Reece obtained BE(Hons) and ME degrees in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland, followed by a PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy (2020) from the University of Cambridge.

In Cambridge Reece was a member of Trinity College and his doctoral work, funded by a Woolf Fisher Scholarship, focused on bioresorbable polymer-glass composites for medical implants. Following this Reece moved to Imperial College London for post-doctoral research, where he began working on additively manufactured metal lattice materials for orthopaedic implants in the Biomechanics Group. In 2022 he joined the department as a Departmental Lecturer, before being appointed to his current role in 2023, where he is developing new mechanical metamaterials and bioresorbable materials for advanced medical implants.

Most Recent Publications

Shear yielding and crazing in dry and wet amorphous PLA at body temperature

Shear yielding and crazing in dry and wet amorphous PLA at body temperature

Frequency dependent fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured titanium lattices

Frequency dependent fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured titanium lattices

Effect of chemical–electrochemical surface treatment on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of chemical–electrochemical surface treatment on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of hirtisation on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of hirtisation on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Controlling the mechanical behaviour of stochastic lattice structures: The key role of nodal connectivity

Controlling the mechanical behaviour of stochastic lattice structures: The key role of nodal connectivity

View all

Research Interests

Reece's research aims to develop new materials for load-bearing medical implant devices. He aims to design new mechanical metamaterials with unprecedented mechanical properties, targeted at specific medical applications, by utilising state-of-the-art additive manufacturing techniques. By combining this with bioresorbable materials with controllable degradation behaviour, he hopes to achieve close control of the mechanical properties of medical implant materials, and their evolution over their lifetime.

Relevant techniques: Additive manufacturing (esp. LPBF), micro-CT, static mechanical and fatigue testing, surface treatment, SEM, XRD, polymer/glass/ceramic/composite processing, DSC/TGA, degradation testing

Most Recent Publications

Shear yielding and crazing in dry and wet amorphous PLA at body temperature

Shear yielding and crazing in dry and wet amorphous PLA at body temperature

Frequency dependent fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured titanium lattices

Frequency dependent fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured titanium lattices

Effect of chemical–electrochemical surface treatment on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of chemical–electrochemical surface treatment on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of hirtisation on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of hirtisation on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Controlling the mechanical behaviour of stochastic lattice structures: The key role of nodal connectivity

Controlling the mechanical behaviour of stochastic lattice structures: The key role of nodal connectivity

View all

DPhil Opportunities

If you are interested in research in mechanical metamaterials, bioresorbable materials, and/or medical implant materials, please contact me about research opportunities and consider applying to the DPhil program in our department.

DPhil studentship

Research studentship in additive manufacturing of bioresorbable mechanical metamaterials

Closing date Friday 1 December 2023

Most Recent Publications

Shear yielding and crazing in dry and wet amorphous PLA at body temperature

Shear yielding and crazing in dry and wet amorphous PLA at body temperature

Frequency dependent fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured titanium lattices

Frequency dependent fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured titanium lattices

Effect of chemical–electrochemical surface treatment on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of chemical–electrochemical surface treatment on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of hirtisation on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Effect of hirtisation on the roughness and fatigue performance of porous titanium lattice structures

Controlling the mechanical behaviour of stochastic lattice structures: The key role of nodal connectivity

Controlling the mechanical behaviour of stochastic lattice structures: The key role of nodal connectivity

View all