Dr Lakshmi Shenoy

Lakshmi Shenoy
PhD Student, University of Warwick

Lakshmi Shenoy is a PhD researcher in Computational Materials Science at the University of Warwick, where her work focuses on using machine learning-based interatomic potentials to model defects in iron and its alloys—materials critical to the structural integrity of reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) in nuclear power plants. Her research is part of the ENTENTE European consortium, which aims to build a multiscale model for irradiation-induced embrittlement. Lakshmi's project addresses a key missing link in modelling irradiated materials: connecting neutron irradiation with changes in mechanical properties. Her work is validated in collaboration with experimental teams at EDF and CEA in Paris.

She previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials in Singapore and held research internships at bp, A*STAR, and the University of Cambridge. Lakshmi holds an MSc in Complex Systems Modelling from King’s College London.