Dr Alex Skordos
Lecturer
Location: Building 56, Cranfield campus
E: a.a.skordos@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2811
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Alex Skordos is a Lecturer in Composites Modelling. He is involved in research on processing of polymer nanocomposites, simulation and optimisation composites manufacturing, modelling of composite reinforced sandwich structures and cure kinetics of toughened thermosets. Alex lectures in the Manufacturing and Materials Department on the subjects of Finite Element Modelling, Composites Processing and Composites Performance. His general interests are on the development of efficient simulation tools and of cost effective monitoring methods for materials processing and their integration with inverse techniques. One specific area of interest concerns the experimental characterisation and computational simulation of variability in polymer composites and the investigation of trade offs between variability, cost and performance.
Clients
- European Commission
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- BAE Systems
- MSC.Software
Background
Dr Alex Skordos graduated from NTUA (Athens) with a Dipl Ing in Metallurgical Engineering. He was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to pursue his doctoral studies on modelling and monitoring of composites processing at Cranfield University. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Reading - Centre for Biomimetics, Cranfield University - Advanced Materials Department and University of Cambridge - Centre for Micromechanics.
He has worked extensively on the development and implementation of numerical models for composites manufacturing, the development of process monitoring and sensing techniques and the application of inverse methods to optimisation and parameter identification in composites processing and design.
A Chartered Engineer, he is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the AIAA.
