Antonio Feteira

Biography

In 1999, he started working towards his PhD at the University of Sheffield within Professors Reaney and Sinclair’s groups and in collaboration with Morgan Electroceramics. During his PhD studies he was awarded a Worldwide Universities Network Scholarship to the Penn State University (USA) and a Marie Curie Training Fellowship in Advanced Microscopy at the Max Planck Institut für Metallforschung (Germany). Upon the conclusion of his PhD in 2004, he became a Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield (UK), working in advanced functional oxides within Prof. Sinclair’s group. Between 2004 and 2007 he hold visiting research positions at Penn State University (USA), within Professor Lanagan's group and Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), with Professor Calbet's group. In 2008, Antonio moved to Austria to work within the R&D research group of TDK EPC. Simultaneously, he acted as Visiting Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. One and half years later, he joined the School of Chemistry as a Birmingham Science City fellow and also became an Associate Fellow in the Department of Physics at Warwick University. From 2012 he has been working at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published over 50 research papers in the field of advanced functional oxides for electronics. He acts as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He received research grants from the Royal Society and the Christian Doppler Society. He is a member of the Cost Action SIMUFER (Single- and multiphase ferroics and multiferroics with restricted geometries).

Research Interest

Polymers, Nanocomposites and Modelling Research Centre Materials and Engineering