Staff Lead researcher Doctor Dikai Guan BEng, MEng, PhD, FHEA, CEng, MIMMM Associate Professor Research interests Design low-cost high performance alloys Develop novel manufacturing and thermomechanical processing Connect with Dikai Email: dikai.guan@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Engineering Materials and Surface Engineering Group Our research activities are often multidisciplinary involving collaborations with other research groups, Universities and industry partners.