Experience

LESS COMMON METALS LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Development Metallurgist

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Key Responsibilities: • Design and participate in plant trials, new alloy development, and process change to meet customer specification. Lead the product development cycle from conception, through to full scale production and commercialisation. • Evaluate new and existing raw materials and their impact on plant and product quality. Review raw materials and product specification and develop internal standard specification. • Plan and execute continuous improvement projects to improve product quality, plant efficiency, process capability and cost optimisation. • Scope and write research proposals for national and international funded grants by collaborating with universities, research organisations and industrial partners. • Contribute to health, safety and environmental reviews associated with raw materials, pilot and manufacturing plant. • Maintain awareness of relevant standards, regulatory compliance, advancement in process technology, product quality, and raw material development. Show less



BCAST, Brunel University London

• London, England, United Kingdom

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Aug 2019 - Jun 2023

  Contributed to: The development of closed-loop recyclable ultra-high strength aluminium alloys for automotive crash management and battery enclosure systems (Sponsored project from EPSRC and Constellium, UK) • Controlling solidification microstructure of aluminium alloys during direct chill (DC) casting process through physical (Melt Conditioning Technology) and chemical approach. • Controlling the formation of second phase particles in DC cast billet and understanding the effect on thermal-mechanical processing and ultimate mechanical properties. • Eliminating (100 %) or reducing the energy-intensive homogenisation practice from the industry. • Increasing the flexibility of using recycled aluminium (Al) alloys. • Increasing the production rates in industrial cast houses. Show less



CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST)

• Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

• CSIR-Research Associate

  • Apr 2017 - Jul 2019

  Contributed to: The development of aluminium based functionally graded materials (FGM) by squeeze infiltration process for selectively reinforced engineering components. • I had worked as a lead team member in creating joint research and development (R&D) work with academic and industry participants. • Fabricated near net shape mechanically self-sustaining graded porous ceramic preforms for infiltration process. • Developed near net shape Al based functionally graded materials (FGM) with location-specific performance under service conditions by direct squeeze infiltration processing of various aluminium alloys into the interconnected graded porous ceramic preforms. • Based on the research work, several R&D projects were sanctioned from reputed organisations, covering a total worth of INR 25 Million. Show less