Dr Chikwesiri Imediegwu is a Lecturer in Design Optimisation for Sustainable Manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the University of Manchester.

He joined the university in June 2025. Following his doctorate program at Imperial, where he developed a framework for the multiscale optimisation of 3D printable lattice structures, he has held 3 separate positions as a postdoctoral researcher in the areas of fluid topology optimisation for conjugate heat transfer (Imperial), novel superior materials based on aperiodic order (Open University) and most recently in controlling the nanoscale architecture of battery electrodes for performance and lifetime (Imperial). He now leads the Sustainable Multifunctional Materials by Optimised Design (SMMOD Group) based in MAE in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manchester.

His research interests revolve around deriving sustainable multifunctional materials across the disciplines of structural mechanics, heat transfer, bio-engineering and energy storage. His work cuts across the design of bespoke in-vivo orthopaedic smart implants, structural batteries and energy storage devices as well as the multiscale optimisation of periodic and aperiodic lattice structures.

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