Welcome to the MaXtaloy - Materials Discovery group at Imperial College London. We are a diverse research team of talented students and visitors from across the world, led by Dr. Pham at Imperial College London. Our research focuses on the design of advanced materials (meta-materials, architected materials), additive manufacturing (ie, 3D printing) and metallurgy. Our research has been published in Nature, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, J. of Mech. and Phys. of Solids, Int. J. of Plasticity, and highlighted in many Press channels - Science News, Dutch Newspaper NRC, Physics World, Chemical & Eng News, EurekAlert, etc.
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Group photo (taken in 2017): first row, from left to right: Chen, Minsoo, Jinqian, Son, Kelu;
second row: Jie, Tom, Stepan, Jump, Alessandro, Bogdan, Peter
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Principal Investigator:
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Minh-Son (Son) Pham is a Associate Professor (Reader level) in Engineering Alloys at Imperial College London. He is a visiting professor at École normale supérieure Paris Saclay in 2026. Before joing Imperial, he was a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University and a Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2015. He obtained a Doctor of Science Degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 2013 with distinction the ETH Medal 2013. He is awarded the Early Career Innovator Award 2024 in Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing given by the TMS - one of the largest Materials Societies (https://www.tms.org/). His CV is given here: Curriculum Vitae
He currently leads a research group carrying out fundamental studies for discovery and design of advanced materials for a range of applications from energy generation/distribution, aerospace and space to medical devices. His research focuses on key elements (material design, lifetime, integrity/reliability, performance, repairing) of materials. His research has been highlighted by Nature Editor's - "3D printing mimics metals" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00139-4, Physics World, Reuters.
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 member of the editorial board of the Metal and Materials International sitting at multiple scientific committees (including London Materials Society, Additive Manufacturing Benchmarking).
He teaches multiple subjects at Imperial: Partial Differential Equations, Fracture Mechanics, Additive Manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing), Microstructure Engineering. He is currently the Deputy Director of the MSc programme in Advanced Materials Science & Engineering at Imperial. Previouse, he was a placement coordinator and careers adviser in the department of Materials, looking after the exchange programmes in Materials and Nuclear Engineering between Imperial and other universities including MIT, Cornell, Tokyo Science.
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