Dr Chinnapat Panwisawas
BSc, PhD, CEng, FIMMM, FInstP, FIMechE, FHEA

 

Research Group Members

Academic staff

 

 

Dr Chinnapat Panwisawas

Senior Lecturer in Materials and Solid Mechanics

Director of Materials Science and Engineering Programme

Deputy Director of Graduate Studies

Chair of Academic Misconduct

Postdoctoral researchers

 

 

Dr Honghao Ge

Post-doctoral Associate in Modelling of Wire-based Additive Manufacturing (2025 –)

Current research students

 

 

       

Carlos Aguilar Hernández (Conacyt scholarship)

ResM Research: Machine learning-based modelling for materials discovery of high-performance titanium alloys (2024 –2025)

Dhruv Basude

(Self-funding)

PhD Research: Can MRE with MpMRI improve detection of Prostate Cancer? (2024 – 2027)

  Jang Griffin

(Queen Mary Research/QMUL Principal’s Studentship)

PhD Research: Physics-based Multi-scale Modelling of Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing (2025 – 2028)

…Available to apply…

(EPSRC DLA Studentship)

PhD Research: Computational Additive Manufacturing enabled Materials Discovery (2025 – 2028)

…Available to apply…

(China Scholarship Council (CSC) Studentship)

PhD Research: Computational design of self-healing functional materials for renewable energy and sustainability (2025 – 2028)

Current Research Students - Co-Supervision

   Rajdeep Mondal
   (MolyCop sponsored       studentship)
   Co-supervision

PhD Research: Physical metallurgy in steel grinding media (2024 –2027)

List of Past Research Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

Doctoral students:

Supervision

  1. Mr Yuchen Liu, PhD candidate in School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary Unviersity of London, Sep 2023 
  2. Mr Peitong Li, PhD candidate in School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Sep 2021

Co-Supervision

  1. Ms Raeita Mehraban Teymouri, PhD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering on "Digital Twin of Metal Additive Manufacturing", University of California at Davis, May 2020 - May 2023
  2. Ms Huayue Zhang, PhD candidate on "Selective Electron Beam Melting of Bearing Steels", School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Sep 2020 - 2024
  3. Mr Samuel Perry, PhD candidate on "Recrystallisation in superalloys", School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Sep 2019 -2024
  4. Ms Aakifa Farooq, PhD candidate in School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Sep 2021 - 2024

Master students:

Supervision

  1. Ms Sandhya Yeleti, MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering with Industry, University of Leicester, May 2020 - 2021
  2. Mr Benjamin M. Dunn, MEng Mechanical Engineering, University of Leicester, Oct 2020 - 2021

Co-Supervision

  1.  Mr Sagar Beldar, MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering with Industry, University of Leicester, May 2020 - 2021

Postdoctoral researchers:

Supervision

  1. Dr Yuanbo (Tony) Tang, University of Oxford, Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Co-Supervision

  1. Dr Bogdan Nenchev, University of Leicester, Oct 2020 - May 2022

Visiting Scholars

Visiting Research Fellow

  1. Dr. Nanfu Zong, Research Fellow at Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

Visiting PhDs

  1. Mr Chengming Fuyang, PhD student at School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Nanjing Technology University, China
  2. Mr Chaoyu Han, PhD student at State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Research Assistants

Dr Panwisawas
GE, Honghao

Current PhD Projects

Thesis Title
Can MRE with MpMRI improve detection of Prostate Cancer?
High-Fidelity Modelling and Validation of Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing.
Machine learning-based modelling for materials discovery of high-performance titanium alloys
Physical metallurgy of steel grinding media
SEMS-PHD-595 Multi-scale Modelling of Multi-Material AM
Ultralightweight Mechanical Metamaterials for Future Sustainable Air Transportation
Welding of dissimilar materials