Professor Nikki Stanford is a Research Leader at the University of South Australia.
- Research Interests:
- Magnesium alloy design
- Green processing technologies
- Strip casting
- Fatigue and fracture
- The metallurgy of advanced high strength steels
- Advanced characterization of microstructures using small angle scattering, electron microscopy and atom probe tomography
- Roles within UniSA
- Director of Industry 4.0 Defence Testlab
- University lead for Microscopy Australia
- Post-graduate supervisor
- Undergraduate teaching
- Current projects
- Stress relief in 3D printed Ti-4Al-4V
- Kinetics of phase transformations in strip cast dual phase streels
- Precipitation and strengthening in Cu-containing strip cast steel
- Grain boundary properties in magnesium from first principles calculations
- Structure property relationships in conducting polymers
- High entropy alloys
