Rodrigo Jose Da Silva Email & Phone Number

• R&D Mechanical Engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Switzerland), within the Detector Technologies group of the Experimental Physics department.• I am pursuing a PhD in Materials Science at the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ, Brazil), with a research exchange at the University of Bristol (UK) as part of the Aerospace Engineering Programme.• I hold a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, specialising in Materials and Manufacturing Processes, and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, both from UFSJ.• I am a Research Collaborator at the Centre for Innovation and Technology in Composite Materials (CITeC, Brazil), and at the Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS, UK).• My expertise lies in Solid Mechanics and Structural Engineering, with research interests focusing on the design, fabrication, and characterisation of advanced Composite Structures, Metastructures, and Metamaterials. I employ both destructive and non-destructive testing techniques to advance the development and understanding of these materials.