Kaung Myat

What were you doing before joining Steel for a Fossil Free Future?

I finished my masters in management and innovation at the Technical University of Munich, my focus was on multi-material additive manufacturing of marine heat exchangers. I took a 6 months break, where I was interning at a Venture Capital firm that invests in 3D printing startups, and then took a 2 month backpacking trip across Europe before starting my position.

What will you be doing as a PhD/Post Doc?

For my PhD, I am building the Laser-Induced Particle Impact Test (LIPIT) Lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It is a type of testing mechanism that can perform non-destructive testing of materials, surface coating applications, or improve understanding of cold-spray additive manufacturing. The lab is also able to test and study materials under high strain rates: 10^6 – 10^9, which can further help our understanding of how materials function.

What challenges will your PhD/Post Doc work contribute to solving?

As part of my literature survey, I shall be analysing a real-life application that could be enhanced using LIPIT. Due to uncontrollable circumstances, and drawbacks from building the lab, the challenges I will be solving is still under discovery phase but focus area is in steel applications.

How can your research contribute to address those challenges?

The goal of the research is to help improve functionality of the product using LIPIT as a technology.

About my project

For more information, see here.