About
Prof
Alojz
Ivankovic
Principal Investigator
Prof Alojz Ivankovic is Full Professor of Mechanics of Materials (since 2004), Head of Mechanical Engineering Programs (2006-2018), and Head of Mechanical Engineering Discipline (2006-2011) at UCD. He is a founding director of UCD Centre of Adhesion and Adhesives (established in 2010) and UCD-Bekaert University Technology Centre (established in 2015). He is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, Head of Structural Adhesives Division of Adhesion Society (2014-2016), Irish elected member for International Fracture Society (2017-), an external examiner of ME Mechanical program at Trinity College Dublin (2016-).
Prof Ivankovic’s track record includes:
- 380 publications
- 31 graduated PhDs (4 of which are full Professors), 50 MSc students, 15 post postdoctoral researchers and 1 Marie Curie Research Fellow
- awarded over €25 million in research funding since joining UCD in 2004 (total over €27 million, approx €6 million as PI and approx €21 million as co-PI)
- 1 patent, 1 licence
- strong links and collaboration with industry and academia both nationally and internationally
- memberships of a number of scientific committees, editorial boards, review panels, coordination of an international ESIS Mixed Mode Round Robin
Research Interests (Lay Summary)
Prof Ivankovic currently leads a research group of 4 MSc, 5 PhD students, and 5 postdoc researchers. The main research focus of the group is the process-structure-property relationship towards materials by design, which involves multi-scale characterisation and modeling of thermo-mechanical, damage and fracture behaviour and nano-modification and tailor design of polymers, composites, adhesives and super-hard materials. More recently, the group’s research also focuses on additive manufacturing. The group has access to excellent processing, thermo-mechanical testing, video, microscopy, analytical and high-performance computing facilities.