Assoc ProfessorMert Celikin

Dr. Mert Celikin is Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at UCD. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering at McGill University in 2012, where he studied high temperature deformation behaviour of magnesium alloys for automotive powertrain applications. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill Metals Processing Centre and more recently, at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (INRS-EMT). His research at INRS-EMT was on advanced self-healing composites and optical fiber based devices for aerospace / space applications with international / industrial collaboration (European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands and MPB Technologies Inc., Canada). He was awarded Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship (2021-2023) to continue his research on the design and processing of Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys via novel Additive Manufacturing technology. His current research focuses on designing and processing novel alloy compositions more compatible with Additive Manufacturing for biomedical and aerospace applications. His expertise is in fatigue / creep deformation, alloy design and nano-structural characterization.