Daniel King
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Area of Specialisation: Experimental and theoretical approaches to structural materials
Working across Key Challenge 2.
Daniel King completed his PhD at the University of Technology Sydney in 2016 with a thesis entitled High-Entropy Alloys for Use in Advanced Nuclear Applications. Currently, he is based at Imperial College London, in the Centre for Nuclear Engineering. His expertise is in structural materials and he combines both experimental and theoretical approaches to solve problems with current materials and discover new materials that can potentially replace those currently used.
Within the MIDAS programme, Daniel is using atomic scale modelling to investigate the influence of Sn, Fe and Nb on defect evolution in Zirconium. This is important for gaining a mechanistic understanding of the irradiation-induced growth that occurs in current Zircaloys, and will lead to better structural materials for Generation IV fission reactors (fuel claddings and assemblies) and fusion reactors (in the breeder blanket).
Daniel is also author of over 20 publications, as well as a widely used prediction tool for high-entropy alloys - Alloy Search and Predict.