Anastasia Vasileiou

Anastasia Vasileiou is a Dalton Fellow in Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing at the University of Manchester's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She holds a Doctor of Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2014), specializing in precision casting and heat transfer optimization. Her research focuses on residual stress analysis in welding, surrogate modeling for digital experiments, and nuclear materials characterization. Vasileiou has conducted visiting research at the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in 2014-2016.

Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to affordable and clean energy. Key research interests include:

• Physics-informed neural networks for thermal and neutronics simulations
• Inverse heat source calibration in welding processes
• Residual stress modeling in nuclear reactor components
• Surrogate models for fast prediction of physical fields

Notable achievements include winning the CIUK Best Poster Prize (2024) and leading the Solid Mechanics Group project at Manchester. Her collaborative work spans 17 countries, with recent studies published in Fusion Engineering and Design, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, and Journal of Visualized Experiments. She actively supervises PhD students in advanced manufacturing technologies.

Vasileiou's research infrastructure includes the Dalton Nuclear Institute and Energy Advanced Materials platforms. Her work addresses critical challenges in nuclear energy systems and material integrity under extreme conditions.