Dr Alfred Sidambe CEng, AFHEA, MInstP
Research Fellow Materials, Design and Manufacturing Eng
- Work email A.Sidambe@liverpool.ac.uk
About
Personal Statement
Dr Alfred T. Sidambe is based at the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool and he specialises in difficult to process advanced materials such as titanium, high temperature nickel based alloys and refractory metals. Dr. Sidambe has a first degree in Applied Physics with Electronics from Hull University and a PhD in Advanced Materials from Cranfield University. He also has several years experience working in industry within the optoelectronics and orthopaedics sectors.
Dr Sidambe has also worked in research at the University of Sheffield's Materials Science and Engineering Department, on the improvement of processing metals such as titanium, stainless, cobalt and nickel alloys via advanced powder processing and additive manufacturing techniques, in collaboration with industry. In 2013, he was awarded the Wellcome Trust Discipline Hopping Fellowship in order to carry out research into the Biocompatibility of Advanced Manufactured Titanium. Dr Sidambe is a member of the Institute of Physics and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was awarded the Idwal Jones Prize in Experimental Physics (Hull University) in 1997 and the EPMA EuroPM Keynote Paper Award in 2015. Dr Sidambe also has a record of developing and supervising undergraduate, postgraduate and staff within the higher education sector.