New EU-funded postdoc to advance thermal spray research
This fall, our Thermal Spray Group will be strengthened by Dr. Ameey Anupam joining the team as a postdoctoral fellow. Funded by EU’s Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program, she will develop and test advanced ceramic coatings based on high entropy oxides for gas turbine engines over the next two years.
"We are very pleased to have secured this prestigious post-doc position. This is the first time that University West is getting an opportunity to host a postdoctoral researcher through the EU’s Horizon Europe MSCA program," says Shrikant Joshi, Professor in the Thermal Spray Group.Ameey’s research will focus on development and evaluation of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) based on a new class of materials, namely high entropy oxides, utilizing advanced processing approaches. The end objective is to push the limits of conventional TBCs in order to enable gas turbines to withstand higher temperatures and operate more efficiently.
"The unique combination of novel materials and innovative thermal spray processing techniques has the potential to create coatings that can endure higher temperatures, potentially improving combustion efficiency and reducing fuel consumption in gas turbines," explains Shrikant Joshi.
Following a Joint PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras and Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, Ameey is currently at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. She has extensive research experience in both high entropy materials and thermal spraying.
In addition to working at the Production Technology Center in Trollhättan, she will collaborate with the Institute of Plasma Physics in the Czech Republic and Treibacher Industries in Austria as part of her MSCA fellowship.