Dr Ilaria Corni PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Ilaria Corni is a Senior Research Fellow working in nC2 Engineering Consultancy, a Business unit within the University of Southampton.
The Unit provides industrial clients with direct access to the state-of-the-art facilities and to the expert staff through consultancy and applied research services.
Applied Research
Ilaria provides Applied Research solutions to customers. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Perpetuum Ltd to understand the failure mechanism of train bearings and to link the vibration signature (recorded by sensors build by Perpetuum Ltd. and fitted on trains) to the damage within the bearings.
This research has been funded partly by Perpetuum but also by two EPSRC IAA grants and by an INNOVATE UK grant due to start in Autumn 2018.
More information about this research is available on the research project page.
Experience
Ilaria Corni received her Master`s Degree in Chemistry in 2004 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). During her final year thesis she synthesised thiol molecules and investigated their adsorption as self-assembled monolayers (SAM) on polycrystalline gold using electrochemical techniques. Her study was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKlyne, Italy.
She obtained a PhD in Materials Science at Imperial College London in 2009. Her PhD was focused on the deposition of nano composite coatings by electrochemical processes (electrophoretic deposition and electro co-deposition). Some of the data produced were also analysed using Neural Network. Ilaria`s PhD was sponsored by a Marie Curie Fellowship.
She joined nCATS (National Centre of Advanced Tribology at Southampton) at the University of Southampton in 2009 to study the effect of multilayer coatings on the impact resistant properties of materials (metals, ceramics and composites). The structures of the coating deposited were inspired by natural materials (biomimetics). The project was sponsored by DSTL and EPSRC.
Ilaria joined nC2 Engineering Consultancy in July 2016.
