Alexander Grötsch

Role at KTH:

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Research areas/interests:

Applied Physics | Synchrotron Science | Architected Metamaterials | Functional Materials | Microscale | Nanoscale | Solid Mechanics | Materials Science | SAXS | WAXS/XRD | Additive Manufacturing | In situ micromechanical testing | Bio-based Nanostructured Materials

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Previous affiliations (selection):

University of California, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Valdevit Lab, Irvine, CA, USA

EMPA (ETH Domain) - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures (Michler Lab), Thun, Switzerland

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Scotland, United Kingdom

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz Research Center, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), Quantum Nanoscience (PGI-3), Germany

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Awards and distinctions (selection):

"Reviewer of the Month", October 2024 (Nature Portfolio) (https://www.nature.com/commseng/referees/reviewer-of-the-month)

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), UK (John Moyes Lessells Scholarship 2018) (https://rse.org.uk/)

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 1st Year PhD Research Prize, 2017

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Synchrotron beamtimes at:

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France (https://www.esrf.fr/home.html)

Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, UK (https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home.html)

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Swiss Light Source (SLS), Villigen, Switzerland (https://www.psi.ch/en)

MAX IV, Lund, Sweden (https://www.maxiv.lu.se/)

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Scientific networks (selection):

LINXS - Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science, Lund, Sweden (https://www.linxs.se/)

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) (German Physical Society) (https://www.dpg-physik.de/?set_language=en)

MecaNano (https://mecanano.com/), a European Network for the "Mechanics of Matter at the Nano-Scale". MecaNano is funded by the EU via Horizon Europe as a European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) Action. It aims to advance the multiscale understanding of the mechanical behaviour of nanostructured materials (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21121/).

European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) (https://euromech.org/)

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) (https://www.tms.org/)

Materials Research Society (MRS) (https://www.mrs.org/)

Digital Futures Faculty Member -Digital Futures (https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/) is a cross-disciplinary research centre with the vision to solve societal challenges through digital transformation. It was established in 2020 by KTH, Stockholm University and RISE, based on significant long-term support of a Strategic Research Area by the Swedish Government.

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Current (co-)supervisions (selection):

PhD project on "Concurrent multiscale micromechanical modeling of fiber networks" (VR funded project)

PhD project on "Improving health care in peripheral vascular disease: from population-based to individualized decision-making" (MedTechLabs funded project; 25 MSEK) in collaboration with the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (Vascular Surgery) at the Karolinska Institute (KI)

M.Sc. project (in collaboration with Vattenfall and VTT Finland) on "Effects of heterogeneity on the micromechanical properties of materials for nuclear power plants (NPPs)"

M.Sc. project (in collaboration with Alleima, Sandviken & MSE & MMD, KTH) on "Method and product development for composite tubes"

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Grading committees (selection):

PhD thesis (KTH, Sweden) on "Real-time tracking of additive manufacturing with high-energy X-ray techniques" (research conducted at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KTH, and DESY, Hamburg); Opponent: Amy Clarke (Colorado School of Mines & Los Alamos National Laboratory)

PhD thesis (Lund University, Sweden) on "Tendon Biomechanics: Characterizing hierarchical loading and mineralization during healing through advanced synchrotron techniques" (research conducted at BME, Lund University, with synchrotron experiments at MAX IV, SLS (PSI) and Diamond Light Source)

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Current openings:

(Filled) 2 PhD positions in Vascular Biomechanics (Solid Mechanics) (co-supervision), School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (collaboration with the Karolinska Institute (KI))

Postdoctoral Scholarship (1-year) onin situ structure-mechanics of bio-based hierarchical nanostructured materials (incl. micromechanical testing and synchrotron based X-ray analyses) -> Job post will be available soon!