Ali Kosari

Ali Kosari is the Grant Gibson Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, where his group’s primary aim is to integrate advanced electron microscopy with electrochemical techniques to gain deeper insights into corrosion and degradation phenomena in strategic materials and alloys.

He earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) through a joint project between the National Centre for High Resolution Electron Microscopy and the Corrosion Technology and Electrochemistry groups. His doctoral research pioneered the use of liquid-phase TEM to investigate corrosion and corrosion inhibition mechanisms in aerospace aluminium alloys. For this work, he received the prestigious TP Hoar Award twice, in 2021 and 2022, for the best papers of the year published in Corrosion Science journal.

Following a 1.5-year postdoctoral appointment at TU Delft, Ali joined Utrecht University as a Staff Scientist at the Electron Microscopy Centre, where he worked for one year. He then moved to Thermo Fisher Scientific in Eindhoven, serving for nearly three years as a Senior TEM Application Scientist within the electron microscopy hub.

His research interests cover the broad field of advanced electron microscopy characterisation of materials, with a particular emphasis on materials degradation. These phenomena pose major challenges across industries, not only leading to structural failures but also compromising safety, efficiency, sustainability, and ultimately economic performance. Building on his expertise in materials science, metallurgy, and corrosion, Ali’s work seeks to advance fundamental understanding while enabling practical solutions to critical materials challenges.