MIDAS Team

MIDAS brings together world-leading researchers in fuel cladding, irradiation damage, multiscale characterisation and modelling to achieve the programme’s overall aim of a holistic approach to the study of fuel assembly materials. The team furthermore has strong connections with the UK fusion community, which will be leveraged in MIDAS to revitalise the study of Zr as a fusion material.

The academic team brings a wide breadth of experience, technical knowledge, and experimental and modelling skills to the MIDAS. This, underpinned by access to state-of-the-art facilities will enable the programme to deliver a step-change in the understanding of fuel cladding performance that will facilitate the development of physically informed safety cases by our industrial project partners.

The team has a proven track record in delivering impact, and well-established collaborations with the nuclear industry, from fuel manufacturers to operators of nuclear power stations. Beyond the core academic team, engaging closely with the wider industrial and research communities is key to MIDAS. Please see our Partners page for further details of some of our key stakeholders.

If you want to see how all these people fit together, Scroll to the bottom to view our MIDAS organogram.

Investigators

Philipp Frankel - University of Manchester (Principal Investigator)

Daniel Balint - Imperial College London

Ben Britton - Imperial College London

Sergei Dudarev - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

Fionn Dunne - Imperial College London

Jicheng Gong - University of Oxford

Chris Grovenor - University of Oxford

Robert Harrison - University of Manchester

Mia Maric - University of Manchester

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Emily Aradi - University of Manchester

Bartosz Barzdajn - University of Manchester

Alex Carruthers - University of Manchester

James Gibson - University of Oxford

Jing Guo - University of Manchester

Guanze He - University of Oxford

Rakesh Kumar - Imperial College London

Melvyn Larranaga - University of Manchester

Xingzhong Liang - University of Manchester

Associated PhD Students

Ioannis Alakiozidis - University of Manchester

Callum Andrew - University of Manchester

Elliott Ayers - Monash University

Thomas Bailey - University of Birmingham

Oliver Buxton - University of Manchester

Aaron Chote - Imperial College London

Zhenxin Cui - University of Oxford

Michael Green - University of Manchester

Daniel Hortelano Roig - University of Oxford

Siyu Huang - University of Sydney

Callum Hunt - University of Manchester

Laura Ibanez Gomez - University of Oxford

Rehana Jalil - University of Manchester

Josh Langcaster - Imperial College London

Project Management

Doyin Mansell - MIDAS Programme Manager