Minh-Son Pham

Summary

Dr. Minh-Son Pham is a Senior Lecturer (equiv. to Associate Professor in USA) in the department of Materials. Previously, he was a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University and a Guest Researcher at NIST from 2013 to 2015. He obtained a Doctor of Science degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich with distinction - ETH Medal in 2013. He joined Imperial in Dec. 2015 as a research fellow, was made Lecturer in 2018 and Senior Lecturer in 2021. His groundbreaking research has been published in Nature, Nature Communications, J. of Mech. and Phys. of Solids, Int. J. of Plasticity, etc. He has delivered > 15 invited lectures at international conferences (Programmable Materials 2020, ICMAT2019, Thermec, TMS etc.)

He currently leads a research group of 10 PhD students and 2 postdocs (Dr. Xu and Dr. Liu) to carry out fundamental research in additive manufacturing (ie 3D printing) and digital manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical integrity andmeta-materials. He establishes strong collaborations with industries across different sectors from aerospace, gas & oil, defence, automobiles, medical devices (orthopaedics and atrial fibrillation treatment) and energy (including fusion with CCFE) to help tackling challenges related to reliability, functionality, sustainability and environmental issues in these sectors. He is an active reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (including Nature, Nature Comms, Science Advances, Acta Mat.) and funding bodies (EPSRC, ERC Horizon 2020, Royal Society). Dr. Pham is an associate editor for Journal of Micormechanics and Molecular Physics and a member of editorial board of Metal and Materials International. He is sitting at multiple scientific committees (including London Materials Society, Additive Manufacturing Benchmarking). More additional details about his research can be found at: Pham personal webpage

He teaches multiple subjects at Imperial: Failures of Materials, Additive Manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing), Microstructure of Steels and Partial Differential Equations. Dr. Pham is the careers adviser in the department of Materials. Dr. Pham currently coordinates the international exchange programmes in Materials and Nuclear Engineering between Imperial and other world leading universities including MIT, Purdue, EPFL and ETHZ.