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João Pedro Oliveira got his PhD in Materials Science and Enginering in 2016 from NOVA FCT, Portugal. During his Phd, Joao worked on welding of shape memory alloys and was an invited researcher at the the Center for Advanced Materials Joining of The University of Waterloo, Canada. He then took a postdoctoral position at the Welding Engineering Program, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at the The Ohio State University, USA working in the areas of welding and additive manufacturing of advanced engineering alloys. In 2018 he took an assistant professor position at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NOVA FCT, Portugal. In 2022 he moved to the Materials Science Department also at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. 
His primary research interests focus on fusion-based welding and additive manufacturing. João has a special interest in non-conventional metallic materials such as high entropy alloys and shape memory alloys. Most of João's group research leverages on the use of electron microscopy and high energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction to understand the microstructure evolution upon the application of different processing routes. Joao and his group have been developing automated routines for processing the large amount of data generated during synchrotron X-ray diffraction. More recently, João's group has developed thermodynamic simulation routines for probing vast compositional spaces supported by experimental validation.  The impact of Joao and his group's work in the areas of additive manufacturing and welding is evidenced by the more than 120 peer-review papers in key outlets that include Progress in Materials Science, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia and Additive Manufacturing.

Title of talk: In-situ studies in 3D printed metallic alloys analyzed using synchrotron X-ray diffraction