Eduardo Saiz

Eduardo joined Imperial College in October 2009. He received his MsC from the Universidad de Cantabria (Spain) and his PhD from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 1992. His PhD project was carried out at the Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio – CSIC. There he worked in the development of ceramic superconducting thick films. In 1992 he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) with a Fulbright fellowship and remained there as a staff scientist until 2009. In Berkeley he worked in the fields of high temperature capillarity, joining, composites and biomaterials.

His research interests include the development of new processing techniques for the fabrication of ceramic-based composites, in particular hierarchical composites with bioinspired architectures, the study of high temperature interfacial phenomena such as spreading, the fabrication of graphene-based structures and composites and the development of new materials to support bone tissue engineering.

At Imperial College, he is the director of the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC).

Eduardo is currently the coordinator of BioBone, an Intial Traning Network in the field of bioceramics funded inthe FP7 framework with nine academic and industrial partners.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Member/Vice Chair Basic Science Division, American Ceramic Society

Industrial Connections

• Asahi Glass, Glass/Ceramic interfaces
• Ceram, BioBone
• Ceramtec, BioBone
• Keramat, BioBone
• Noraker, BioBone
• Welland Medical, Development of a Novel Wound Management Dressing

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Saiz Gutierrez E, Picot O, Ferraro C, et al., 2017, Using graphene networks to build bioinspired self-monitoring ceramics, Nature Communications, Vol:8, ISSN:2041-1723

Al Nasiri N, Ni N, Saiz E, et al., 2015, Effect of microstructure and grain boundary chemistry on slow crack growth in silicon carbide at ambient conditions, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Vol:35, ISSN:0955-2219, Pages:2253-2260

Fu Q, Saiz E, Tomsia AP, 2011, Bioinspired Strong and Highly Porous Glass Scaffolds, Advanced Functional Materials, Vol:21, ISSN:1616-301X, Pages:1058-1063

Benhassine M, Saiz E, Tomsia AP, et al., 2010, Role of substrate commensurability on non-reactive wetting kinetics of liquid metals, Acta Materialia, Vol:58, ISSN:1359-6454, Pages:2068-2078

Liu G, Zhao D, Tomsia AP, et al., 2009, Three-Dimensional Biomimetic Mineralization of Dense Hydrogel Templates, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol:131, ISSN:0002-7863, Pages:9937-+

Munch E, Launey ME, Alsem DH, et al., 2008, Tough, Bio-Inspired Hybrid Materials, Science, Vol:322, ISSN:0036-8075, Pages:1516-1520