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Christos Skamniotis is a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at King's College London. He has worked on a diverse range of solid mechanics problems, including experimental finite element modeling of soft food deformation and fracture during oral gastric processing, and the design of transpiration-cooled gas turbine blades to understand creep, fatigue, and ratcheting failure. Christos joined King's College London in January 2024, having previously worked as a Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Leicester from 2023 to 2024. His academic career began at Imperial College London in 2014, where he received the Unwin prize for his PhD thesis in 2017. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted postdoctoral research on soft biological materials for one year, succeeded by 3.5 years of postdoctoral research on transpiration-cooled nickel-based turbine blades at the University of Oxford. His interests extend to modeling plastic deformation and flow in extremes of heat, as well as fracture mechanics in soft biological materials.
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