MAX-Nuclear Institute Launch

Felix Hofmann

Felix Hofmann is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His research focusses on understanding the evolution of materials in extreme environments, such as irradiation, high or low temperature and hydrogen, with a particular focus on the behaviour of crystal defects. His group extensively uses and develops synchrotron X-ray techniques, micro-scale thermal transport measurements, advanced electron microscopy tools and insitu experiments. To gain mechanistic understanding, these experiments are combined with simulations ranging from atomistic to continuum scale. His research has focussed on tungsten and steels for fission and fusion environments and more recently on materials for hydrogen fuel systems. He has served on beamtime allocation panels at DLS and at the ESRF, and currently co-chairs the later. Together with colleagues from UKAEA and MIT he hosts the “International Nuclear Engineering Colloquium”, a monthly fully-online seminar series, which regularly draws a worldwide audience of 200+ expert participants. In Oxford he is the incoming director of graduate studies and previously served as deputy director of graduate studies and finals examiner. He is a college lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford.