Dr Salvatore Grasso
PhD, MSc, FHEA, Royal Society Industry Fellow

 

Research Impact

  • Secured £2.33M as sole PI and £4.39M total since joining QMUL in 2022, spanning EPSRC, the Royal Society, EU, and industry partners including Ceres Power and UBH Group.

  • Established ultrafast high temperature sintering as an internationally recognised paradigm, independently adopted by groups across China, the USA, and Europe.

  • Manages  MagMat (https://www.magmat.sems.qmul.ac.uk), the UK's only strong magnetic field processing platform, operated as an open access facility serving four QMUL divisions and international visitors.

  • Demonstrated the world's first cold sintering of van der Waals layered compounds, opening low temperature recycling and processing routes for lithium ion battery electrodes.

  • IOM3 Pfeil Award winner (2022), top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier, 2020–2026), 28 granted patents, 13,000+ citations, h-index 63.