Marco Simonelli
Assistant Professor at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing
A new class of lightweight alloys enabled by laser powder bed fusion: from alloy design to material development
Dr Marco Simonelli is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CfAM), University of Nottingham, UK. He studied biomaterials at the University of Genoa and he gained his PhD in 2014 for his research on the metallurgy of Ti-6Al-4V produced by laser additive manufacturing. After post-doctoral research on metal additive manufacturing at CfAM, in 2018, he was awarded a prestigious fellowship to carry out independent research on “Next generation alloys for Additive Manufacturing” to exploit the unique solidification conditions present during additive manufacture to design new superior alloy compositions for the process. His current research interests are fundamentals of cellular and dendritic growth, hot tearing of aluminium alloys, modelling of alloy solidification and development of ad-hoc testing for additive manufacturing. He is an early career member of the Association of Industrial Laser Users and East Midlands Materials Society, forums where he advocates the use of additive manufacturing for innovation in light metal manufacture.
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