Marco Simonelli

Marco Simonelli is a Nottingham Research Fellow at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham. He specializes in the microstructural development of light alloys (particularly Ti-6Al-4V) produced via laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), focusing on heat treatment optimization and alloy design for additive manufacturing.

• Research Focus: Microstructure refinement in titanium alloys
• Techniques: High-temperature EBSD, TEM, in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction
• Key Contributions: Development of novel heat treatments for columnar grain refinement and exploration of Fe alloying in L-PBF Ti-6Al-4V

His work combines experimental characterisation with CALPHAD-based thermodynamic modeling to address challenges in additive manufacturing alloy design.