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Dr Iulia Salaoru joined the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development at ºÚÁÏÍø as a member of academic staff in April 2016. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Bio-inspired Technology - Imperial College London (September 2011-April 2013); Nanofabrication Centre - University of Southampton (April 2013-July 2014) and Warwick Manufacturing Group - University of Warwick (August 2014-March 2016).  

Iulia obtained her BSc degree in Physics; MSc degree in Physics of Thin Films and PhD degree in Solid State Physics from Al.I.Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.  Her PhD work was focussed on A²B⁶ chalcogenide compounds, materials with interesting properties and important applications in photovoltaics. 

Emerging Technologies Research Centre

1. Iulia Salaoru, Salah Maswoud, Shashi Paul, Inkjet Printing of Functional Electronic Memory Cells: A Step Forward to Green Electronics, Micromachines, 10(6), 417, (2019)
2. D. Carta, I. Salaoru, A. Khiat,  A. Regoutz,  C. Mitterbauer,  N. M. Harrison,  T. Prodromakis, Investigation of the switching mechanism in TiO2-based RRAM: a two-dimensional EDX approach, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  8 (30), 19605-19611 (2016)
3. Li Qingjiang, Ali Khiat, Iulia Salaoru, Christos Papavassiliou and Themistoklis Prodromakis, Memory Impedance in TiO₂ based Metal-Insulator-Metal Devices, Scientific Report 4, 4522, (2014)
4. Iulia Salaoru and S.Paul, Electrical bistability in a composite of polymer and barium titanate nanoparticles, Phil.Trans.R.Soc.A, 367 (1905), 4139, (2009).

• Two terminal electronic memory devices
• Photovoltaics
• Inkjet Printing/ Additive Layer Manufacturing
• Printed, Flexible electronics 

• BSc Physics 
• BSc Engineering
• BSc Energy Engineering
• BSc Mechanical Engineering 
• MSc in Electronics Engineering

PhD in Solid State Physics (Faculty of Physics, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania)

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education; (Merit), ºÚÁÏÍø, Leicester, UK  

MSc in Physics of Thin Films (Faculty of Physics, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania)

BSc in Physics (Faculty of Physics, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania)

PHYS3005 Physics of thin films 

PHYS1001 Physics Fundamentals

ENGD1101 Engineering Math I

ENGD3039 Transport Fuels and Energy Storage Systems

ENGD3114 Emerging Materials and Processes

ENGT5128 Physics of Semiconductors

ENGT5214 Study Skills and Research Methods

2023 Doctoral College studentship (ºÚÁÏÍø)

2020 Award for Research Engaged Teaching, ºÚÁÏÍø 

Certificate of Outstanding contribution in Reviewing; The Editors of Additive manufacturing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (March 2018)  

Guest editor for a Special Issue “Miniaturized Memory Devices” in Micromachines (2020) ().

Guest Editor for a Special Issue: 3D Printing Materials: Innovation, Design and Future Technology in Materials (2023)  

• Member Organizing committee of the International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials (ICPAM)  
• Member of the International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ)

• Member of European Science Foundation-  College of Expert Reviewers 2022 

• 27/07/2017 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• 10/02/2017 Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• 19/09/2019 Member of the Editorial Board of Electrochem (MDPI)
• 29/08/2019 Member of the Reviewer Board of Micromachines (MDPI)
• 09/01/2019 Member of the Reviewer Board of Polymers (MDPI)
• 16/11/2017 STEM Ambassador 
• 2016-2018 Associate Fellow, WMG, University of Warwick,
• 2011-2016 Honorary Research Visiting Fellow, EMTERC, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
• 2005- 2007 Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of Leicester, Leicester

 2021 - 2022 Higher Education Innovation Funds (HEIF) - Digital manufacturing of graphene oxide memory devices” Principal investigator

2017/18 - ºÚÁÏÍø Internal Research Fund - VC2020 Additional Funding; Principal investigator

 2017/18 - Higher education innovation funds (HEIF): Inkjet printing of graphene-based materials: a step forward to “green electronics”; Principal investigator

2016/17 - Higher education innovation funds (HEIF): 3-D Printing of Greener, Leaner and Flexible Electronic Memory Devices; Principal investigator

• Invited talk: 6th Autumn School on Physics of Advanced Materials (PAMS-6) 2023

• Invited talk: 15th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, November 2023

• Oral presentation: 7th world Congress on Materials Science & Engineering, November 06-07, 2023

• Invited talk: 14th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, September 2022

•  Keynote presentation Academia International Materials Science & Engineering Conference, august 2022,

• Invited talk 2nd Global Summit on 3D printing & Additive manufacturing, Copenhagen, June 2022.

• Invited talk: 13th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, September 2021

• Distinguished Speaker on 2nd Advanced Materials Science World Congress, June 2021.Invited talk: Digital printing of functional materials: a step forward to green electronics Iulia Salaoru, CCAM & 3D Printing, August 26 to 30, 2019 St. Jul