Contact Dr Konstantinos Georgarakis

Areas of expertise

  • Advanced Casting Science and Technologies
  • Composites
  • Manufacturing of Functional Materials
  • Aerospace Materials
  • Nanomaterials
  • Smart Materials
  • Surface Engineering
  • Sustainable Manufacturing

Background

Dr K. Georgarakis joined ¹û½´ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø as a Senior Lecturer in Low Energy and Novel Casting at the Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Center (SMSC) of the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing (SATM) in 2016. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan and a visiting scientist at the Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering form the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and an Engineering degree in Metallurgy and from the same University. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and a chartered Metallurgical Engineer.

Dr Georgarakis has extensive experience in rapid solidification and casting, bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and nanostructured materials. He has participated in numerous research projects as a principal-investigator or co-investigator, related to the synthesis, structure and properties of advanced non-equilibrium materials, funded by EU and Japanese research agencies. He has authored more than 65 original full articles in ISI journals and conference proceedings, numerous technical reports for industrial partners and he holds three international patents. He often serves as invited speaker at international conferences and research institutes and he has co-organized several scientific conferences and workshops. He serves as a member of the editorial board and as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and national funding agencies in Europe. He received a number of awards and distinctions including the 2010 Young Scientist Award of the International Symposium for Metastable Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials.

Current activities

Casting and Rapid Solidification

Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs)

Nanostructured and Metastable Materials

Material synthesis and processing

Powder Metallurgy

Advanced Composite Materials

Application of Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation in materials characterization

Thermo-mechanical treatment of metals

Tribology, Corrosion and Oxidation

PhD Studentship opportunities

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing

Bulk Metallic Glasses

High Entropy Alloys

Nanostructured and Metastable Materials

Casting and Solidification processes

Powder Metallurgy and Metal Injection Moulding

For inquiries: k.georgarakis@cranfield.ac.uk

Publications

Articles In Journals

Conference Papers

Books