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Nicole Church is a Beatrice Mary Dale Research Fellow at Newnham College and a member of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. She holds an MSci and PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge, where she specialized in titanium alloys. Her research focuses on superelastic and shape-memory titanium alloys for biomedical and aerospace applications, particularly investigating functional fatigue and microstructural degradation mechanisms. She lectures the Fracture and Fatigue course in the Materials Science Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos.
Key achievements include developing a new theory governing transforming alloys and being awarded the IOM3 Prize for her undergraduate research. Her work addresses challenges in alloy design, including optimizing composition and processing to prevent in-service property degradation. Nicole has collaborated with Rolls-Royce UTC on high-temperature structural alloys and solid-state welding processes.
Recent research highlights include studies on Ti-Nb-Au alloys for low-modulus biomedical applications, functional fatigue mechanisms in Ti2448 alloys, and microstructural stability in nickel-based superalloys. Her interdisciplinary approach combines advanced characterization techniques like high-energy diffraction and electron microscopy to advance material science solutions.
