Dr Hemantha Kumar Yeddu

Dr. Hemantha Kumar Yeddu joined the School of Engineering in September 2026 as Lecturer in Welding and Programme Lead. Dr. Yeddu graduated with a PhD and MSc degrees in Materials Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). He has more than 14 years of research and teaching experience at prestigious universities and research centres in UK, USA and EU, including Newcastle University (UK), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), DTU Technical University of Denmark, LUT University (Finland), as well as at Outokumpu Stainless, Sweden. Dr. Yeddu’s research interests are in computational materials engineering, mechanics of materials, metallurgy, metal processing and joining, materials for green energy technologies (e.g., hydrogen infrastructure, electric motors). He has published several pioneering research papers on multiscale material modelling of phase transformations and microstructure evolution in leading materials and mechanical engineering journals. He has taught and led several BEng and MSc courses on mechanics of materials, manufacturing processes, selection criteria of engineering materials, and materials modelling at Newcastle University (UK) and LUT University (Finland). He has supervised numerous BEng, MSc, and PhD student projects.