Dr Aleksander Cendrowicz MEng, PhD

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, 2004
• MEng in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, 1999

Aleksander Cendrowicz qualified with a MEng in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London in 1999. He went onto study for a PhD in Investment Casting at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for High Performance Applications at the University of Birmingham.

Following a period working as a Research Fellow on novel instrumentation techniques for monitoring industrial processes, he moved to work at Ross Ceramics Ltd (a Rolls-Royce Subsidiary) to lead materials and process development of ceramic cores that are used as sacrificial inserts for the investment casting of hollow gas turbine components used for aircraft propulsion. In 2010 he was awarded a Black Belt in Rolls-Royce’s Lean Six Sigma program.

In 2017 he joined Rolls-Royce Plc as a Technical Specialist in manufacturing, working on ceramic material formulation, tooling development, casting process method development, and experimental design to inform design for manufacture rules.

In 2023 he returned to the University of Birmingham to take up his current post of Associate Professor where he leads the Ceramics Forming Group. The focus of the group is research into novel manufacturing techniques, additive manufacturing, using instrumentation & data science for improving established processes, and the formulation of ceramic systems.

He is a member of the High Temperature Research Centre (HTRC), that is a partnership between the University of Birmingham and Rolls-Royce Plc, which was recently recognised through the Queen’s Anniversary Prize. Within the school of Chemical Engineering, he is part of the Formulation Engineering theme that has a long-standing EPSRC and industry funded Centre for Doctoral Training.

• Module lead for year 3 Design Project
• Module lead for MSc Research project
• Foundation Physics as part of the year 1 Chemistry and Materials module
• Rheology as part of the year 4 Advanced Transport Processes module.

• Co-Investigator on Hot Section Lifing and Materials (HOTLINE) project at HTRC in conjunction with Rolls-Royce, conducting research into the optimisation of formulations for additively manufactured ceramic cores to enable enhanced turbine cooling system effectiveness in gas turbine engines.
• Principal Investigator on Industry funded project involving the development of instrumentation for monitoring ceramic coating processes.
• Industrial CASE studentship award with Rolls-Royce on “Characterisation of the physics of photopolymer curing and formulation effects of highly filled slurries during additive ceramic core manufacture”
• Part industry funded studentship with Rolls-Royce on “The Effect of additive ceramic core material formulation on rheology and particle segregation during build and its contribution to shrinkage anisotropy”
• MTC funding awarded for PhD studentship on “Development of a bespoke extrusion based additive manufacturing capability for the production of functionally graded multi-material components”
• Co-supervisor on formulation EngD studentship with Rolls-Royce on “Big Data capture in support of the Digital Twin for Investment Casting Shelling Operations”