Dr. Lorena Perez-Andrade

Education

• Ph.D. Materials Science, Center of Research and Advances Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), Mexico, 2020
• M.E. Chemical Engineering, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, 2014
• B.E. Chemical Engineering, Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP) Mexico, 2012

Biography

Dr. Lorena Perez joined the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department at the University of Alabama in August 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher. After one year, she was promoted to Associate Research Professional. She performs research on the correlation of processing (cold spray, laser-assisted cold spray), microstructure (grain size, precipitates), and mechanical properties (strength, ductility) of metallic materials (aluminum alloys and nickel-based superalloys) for repair applications.

She works on research projects funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to evaluate cold spray and laser-assisted cold spray as a repair technique.

She runs the Alabama Atomization Facility where she processes metallic powders (aluminum alloys, steel alloys, nickel-based alloys, copper alloys, and high entropy alloys) by gas atomization used for additive manufacturing and thermal spray technologies.

Dr.Perez´s research interests are focused on the development of new alloys for additive manufacturing.