Organizing Committee Member
Alojz Ivankovic
Professor
University College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
A. Ivankovic is Professor of Engineering Mechanics (since 2004) and Head of Mechanical Engineering Programs (since 2012), (Head of Mechanical Engineering Discipline 2006-2011). He is director of UCD Centre of Adhesion and Adhesives established in 2010. He is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and a Head of Structural Adhesives Division of Adhesion Society (since 2014). A.I. currently leads the research group of 1 MSc, 3 ME, 9 PhD students and 5 PostDoc researchers. The main research focus of the group is the structure-property relationship towards materials by design, which involves multi-scale characterisation and modelling of thermo-mechanical, damage and fracture behaviour and tailor design of polymers, composites, adhesives and super-hard materials. The group has access to excellent processing, thermo-mechanical testing, video, microscopy, analytical and high-performance computing facilities.
Research Area
Aerospace Materials, Nanotechnology in Material Science, Mechanics of Materials