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Tamsin Whitfield is a Royal Academy Engineering Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, focusing on developing materials to improve efficiency in the aerospace and automotive industries while enabling the implementation of low-carbon power technologies. Her research aims to determine microstructural formation mechanisms, stability, and degradation of compositionally complex alloy systems, linking their key properties to inform the design, development, and optimization of engineering alloys. She is particularly interested in novel refractory metal lightweight alloy systems, focusing on designing alloys that provide a balance of key properties for engineering applications in extreme operating environments, such as in core gas turbine engines and fusion reactors. Tamsin employs techniques like Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX), and X-ray diffraction to understand microstructural evolution and its effects on mechanical properties and oxidation behaviour. Currently, she is funded by a RAEng Research Fellowship for her project 'Faster, Hotter, Stronger: Designing Alloys with a Lighter Carbon Footprint', which seeks to enhance the stability and operating efficiency of refractory metal superalloys in aeroengines and fusion power. Additionally, she is exploring microstructural design in lightweight high entropy alloys and additive manufacturing for electric vehicle components.
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