Zihan Song

Zihan is a Beamline Scientist at I13-2, a position he has held since 2025, specialising in synchrotron X-ray imaging, in situ/operando experiments, and data analysis. He supports users with research proposal development, experimental design, high-resolution X-ray CT workflows, image reconstruction. From 2023 to 2025,  he worked at the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility and NXCT, University of Manchester, where he supported academic and industrial X-ray imaging projects and contributed to the commissioning of dual-beamline Sigray CT systems for in situ experiments. He has led and participated in more than ten beamtime experiments at major facilities, including DLS, ISIS, ILL, and ESRF. His research background includes residual stress analysis of additively repaired turbine blisk aerofoils, in situ fatigue studies of metal matrix composites, and in situ solidification of aluminium alloys using neutron diffraction, synchrotron X-ray diffraction, and synchrotron X-ray CT. His expertise includes time-resolved 3D/4D imaging, in-situ materials testing, image processing and quantitative microstructural analysis. Zihan holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Advanced Composites from Imperial College London, and a PhD in Metallurgy and Materials from the University of Birmingham.