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[From December 2024] Seeking a Postdoctoral Position!
[31 July 2025] A proposal for the Postdoc Mobility fellowship was submitted to SNSF. Best wishes with it.
[31 July 2025] A manuscript titled "Rationalizing deformation modes coupling and microstructure evolution in a metastable beta titanium alloy under varied strain rates: experiments and modeling insight" was submitted to the journal Acta Materialia. Best wishes with it.
[7 July - 11 July 2025] I successfully presented my oral presentation at the PTM conference in Delft.
[17 December 2024] The paper titled "Microstructure and Texture Evolution in Laser Shock Peened Martensitic NiTi Shape Memory Alloy" has been accepted by Materials & Design! My fifth paper during my PhD program!!! Will I have more? It is not clear yet.
[12 December 2024] Successfully completed my third-year annual report with Prof. Roland, Christian, and Cyril. Thanks, all!
[10 December 2024] A manuscript about the prediction of Junction Planes of type-II twin between martensite variants in NiTi alloys has been completed!
[05 December 2024] A new manuscript about the study of martensite reorientation by Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) is completed and reviewed by my supervisor Dr. Cyril Cayron.
[07 November 2024] A manuscript submitted to Materials & Design has been revised and resubmitted with the status under review.
[24 October 2024] A new paper, "The role of interaction work in martensite deformation" has been accepted in Scripta Materialia. First paper appearing in this journal! Bravo!
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