Working with us

See the below list of opportunities to join us:

Postdoctoral Fellow and Funded PhD Studentships:

PhD Studentship: Laser Additive Manufacturing of Lunar Regolith: Generating Synchrotron X-ray Calibrated Sensors for Manufacturing Control and Validating Models for Future Lunar Missions

This project aims to develop and optimise laser-based Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods for fabricating small parts (e.g. drills, solar panels support structures, etc.) with lunar Regolith-based materials. You will use our unique in situ synchrotron x-ray imaging AM machines to observe real-time laser-Regolith interactions and defect formation, expanding on the preliminary work of Iantaffi et. al who found 5 distinctive processability windows. You will expand on this work experimentally and use your results it to inform and validate multiphysics numerical models of LPBF under lunar-like conditions. This project is in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) whowill provide expert guidance and access to the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) in ECSAT.