Dr Iulia Salaoru

Dr Iulia Salaoru joined the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development at De Montfort University as a member of academic staff in April 2016. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Bio-inspired Technology - Imperial College London (September 2011-April 2013); Nanofabrication Centre - University of Southampton (April 2013-July 2014) and Warwick Manufacturing Group - University of Warwick (August 2014-March 2016).  

Iulia obtained her BSc degree in Physics; MSc degree in Physics of Thin Films and PhD degree in Solid State Physics from Al.I.Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.  Her PhD work was focussed on A²B⁶ chalcogenide compounds, materials with interesting properties and important applications in photovoltaics. 

Emerging Technologies Research Centre

1. Iulia Salaoru, Salah Maswoud, Shashi Paul, Inkjet Printing of Functional Electronic Memory Cells: A Step Forward to Green Electronics, Micromachines, 10(6), 417, (2019)
2. D. Carta, I. Salaoru, A. Khiat,  A. Regoutz,  C. Mitterbauer,  N. M. Harrison,  T. Prodromakis, Investigation of the switching mechanism in TiO2-based RRAM: a two-dimensional EDX approach, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  8 (30), 19605-19611 (2016)
3. Li Qingjiang, Ali Khiat, Iulia Salaoru, Christos Papavassiliou and Themistoklis Prodromakis, Memory Impedance in TiO₂ based Metal-Insulator-Metal Devices, Scientific Report 4, 4522, (2014)
4. Iulia Salaoru and S.Paul, Electrical bistability in a composite of polymer and barium titanate nanoparticles, Phil.Trans.R.Soc.A, 367 (1905), 4139, (2009).

• Two terminal electronic memory devices
• Photovoltaics
• Inkjet Printing/ Additive Layer Manufacturing
• Printed, Flexible electronics 

• BSc Physics 
• BSc Engineering
• BSc Energy Engineering
• BSc Mechanical Engineering 
• MSc in Electronics Engineering

PhD in Solid State Physics (Faculty of Physics, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania)

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education; (Merit), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK  

MSc in Physics of Thin Films (Faculty of Physics, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania)

BSc in Physics (Faculty of Physics, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania)

PHYS3005 Physics of thin films 

PHYS1001 Physics Fundamentals

ENGD1101 Engineering Math I

ENGD3039 Transport Fuels and Energy Storage Systems

ENGD3114 Emerging Materials and Processes

ENGT5128 Physics of Semiconductors

ENGT5214 Study Skills and Research Methods

2023 Doctoral College studentship (DMU)

2020 Award for Research Engaged Teaching, De Montfort University 

Certificate of Outstanding contribution in Reviewing; The Editors of Additive manufacturing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (March 2018)  

Guest editor for a Special Issue “Miniaturized Memory Devices” in Micromachines (2020) (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/micromachines/special_issues/Miniaturized_Memory_Devices).

Guest Editor for a Special Issue: 3D Printing Materials: Innovation, Design and Future Technology in Materials (2023)  Materials | Special Issue : 3D Printing Materials: Innovation, Design and Future Technology (mdpi.com)

• Member Organizing committee of the International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials (ICPAM)  
• Member of the International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ)

• Member of European Science Foundation-  College of Expert Reviewers 2022 

• 27/07/2017 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• 10/02/2017 Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• 19/09/2019 Member of the Editorial Board of Electrochem (MDPI)
• 29/08/2019 Member of the Reviewer Board of Micromachines (MDPI)
• 09/01/2019 Member of the Reviewer Board of Polymers (MDPI)
• 16/11/2017 STEM Ambassador 
• 2016-2018 Associate Fellow, WMG, University of Warwick,
• 2011-2016 Honorary Research Visiting Fellow, EMTERC, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
• 2005- 2007 Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of Leicester, Leicester

 2021 - 2022 Higher Education Innovation Funds (HEIF) - Digital manufacturing of graphene oxide memory devices” Principal investigator

2017/18 - De Montfort University Internal Research Fund - VC2020 Additional Funding; Principal investigator

 2017/18 - Higher education innovation funds (HEIF): Inkjet printing of graphene-based materials: a step forward to “green electronics”; Principal investigator

2016/17 - Higher education innovation funds (HEIF): 3-D Printing of Greener, Leaner and Flexible Electronic Memory Devices; Principal investigator

• Invited talk: 6th Autumn School on Physics of Advanced Materials (PAMS-6) 2023

• Invited talk: 15th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, November 2023

• Oral presentation: 7th world Congress on Materials Science & Engineering, November 06-07, 2023

• Invited talk: 14th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, September 2022

•  Keynote presentation Academia International Materials Science & Engineering Conference, august 2022,

• Invited talk 2nd Global Summit on 3D printing & Additive manufacturing, Copenhagen, June 2022.

• Invited talk: 13th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, September 2021

• Distinguished Speaker on 2nd Advanced Materials Science World Congress, June 2021.Invited talk: Digital printing of functional materials: a step forward to green electronics Iulia Salaoru, CCAM & 3D Printing, August 26 to 30, 2019 St. Julian’s Malta

• Zuoxin Zhou, Iulia Salaoru, Peter Morris, Gregory John Gibbons,  Development of a Direct Feed Fused Deposition Modelling Technology for Multi-Material Manufacturing, 19th International Conference on Material Forming – ESAFORM 2016, Nantes, France, 26-29 Apr 2016
• Nicoleta Iftimie, S.Tascu, Iulia Salaoru, Rozina Steigmann, Adriana Savin, Mihaela Irimia, Felicia Iacomi, The evanescent waves in metallic strip gratings and complex structures in subwavelength regime, Materials Today: Proceeding 2 3846, (2015) ; 10th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, ICPAM-10 ICPAM-10 (2014); 22-28 September, Iasi; Romania; 10th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, ICPAM-10 10th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, ICPAM-10
• Qingjiang Li, Ali Khiat, Iulia Salaoru, and Themistoklis Prodromakis Origin of Stochastic Resistive Switching in Devices with Phenomenologically Identical Initial States, Proceeding of ISCAS 2014; 1-5June 2014 Melbourne, Australia; 
• R.Berdan, T.Prodromakis, A.Khiat, I.Salaoru, F.Diaz-Perez, E.Vasilaki, Temporal Processing with volatile memristors, Proceeding of ISCAS 2013; 19-23 May 2013 Beijing, china;
• T.Prodromakis, I.Salaoru, A.Khiat and C.Toumazou, Concurrent Resistive and Capacitive switching of Nanoscale TiO2 memristors, Nature Conference in Frontiers in Electronic Materials: Correlation Effects and Memristive Phenomena, June 17-20, 2012, Eurogress Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

• Book chapter: Manjunatha, Iulia Salaoru, and Shashi Paul, Flexible Silicon Photovoltaic Solar Cells, In: Smart and Flexible Energy Devices (Nguyen, T.A and R.K. Gupta, Ed.) (1st ed.). CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group, (2022)

• Iulia Salaoru, Swapnodoot Ganguly, Dave Morris, Shashi Paul, Materials and challenges of 3D printing of emerging memory devices, Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems, Elsevier, vol. 5, 100067, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100067
• K.Nama Manjunatha, I. Salaoru, W.I Milne, S. Paul, Comparative Study of Silicon nanowires Grown from Ga, In, Sn and Bi for Energy Harvesting, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, EEE Journal of Photovoltaics, doi 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3012628. (2020) 
• Iulia Salaoru and CC Pantelidis, Electrical Re-Writable Non-Volatile Memory Device based on PEDOT: PSS Thin Film, Micromachines, 11(2), 182, 2020 
• Iulia Salaoru, Engaged pedagogy: An Innovative method to Teach Physics, arXiv.org > physics > arXiv:2006.0219 (2020)
• Iulia Salaoru, Salah Maswoud, Shashi Paul, Inkjet Printing of Functional Electronic Memory Cells: A Step Forward to Green Electronics, Micromachines, 10(6), 417, (2019). 
• Z. Zhou, Iulia Salaoru, P. Morris, G. J. Gibbons, Additive Manufacturing of Heat-Sensitive Polymer Melt using a Pellet-Fed Material Extrusion, Additive Manufacturing, 24, 552, (2018).
• D. Carta, I. Salaoru, A. Khiat,  A. Regoutz,  C. Mitterbauer,  N. M. Harrison,  T. Prodromakis, Investigation of the switching mechanism in TiO2-based RRAM: a two-dimensional EDX approach, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  8 (30), 19605-19611 (2016).
• Iulia Salaoru, Zuoxin Zhou, Peter Morris, Gregory Gibbons, Inkjet printing of polyvinyl alcohol multilayers for additive manufacturing applications, J.Appl.Polym.Sci., 133(25), 43572 (2016).
• Li Qingjiang, Ali Khiat, Iulia Salaoru, Christos Papavassiliou and Themistoklis Prodromakis, Memory Impedance in TiO₂ based Metal-Insulator-Metal Devices, Scientific Report 4, 4522, (2014).
• Iulia Salaoru, A. Khiat, R. Berdan, Li Qingjiang, C. Toumazou, T. Prodromakis, Origin of the OFF state variability in nanoscale ReRAM cells, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 47, 145102, (2014).
• Iulia Salaoru, Themistoklis Prodromakis, Ali Khiat, Christofer Toumazou, Resistive switching of oxygen enhanced TiO₂ thin film devices, Appl.Phys.Lett. 102, 013506, (2013).
• Iulia Salaoru, A.Khiat, Li Qingjiang, R. Berdan, T.Prodromakis, Pulse-induced resistive and capacitive switching in TiO2 thin film devices, Appl.Phys.Lett., 103, 233513, (2013).
• Iulia Salaoru, Shashi Paul, Memory devices based on small organic molecules donor-acceptor system, Thin Solids Films, 519, 559, (2010). 
•  Shashi Paul and Iulia Salaoru, Electronic Polymer Memory Devices – Easy to fabricate, difficult to understand, Thin Solids Films, 519, 587, (2010). 
• Iulia Salaoru and S.Paul, Electrical bistability in a composite of polymer and barium titanate nanoparticles, Phil.Trans.R.Soc.A, 367 (1905), 4139, (2009).

• Iulia Salaoru, Swapnodoot Ganguly, Dave Morris, Shashi Paul, Memories - Materials, Devices Materials and challenges of 3D printing of emerging memory devices, Circuits and Systems, Elsevier, vol. 5, 100067, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100067 

• Iulia Salaoru, Salah Maswoud, Shashi Paul, Inkjet Printing of Functional Electronic Memory Cells: A Step Forward to Green Electronics, Micromachines, 10(6), 417, (2019);
• D. Carta, I. Salaoru, A. Khiat, A. Regoutz, C. Mitterbauer, N. M. Harrison, T. Prodromakis, Investigation of the switching mechanism in TiO₂-based RRAM: a two dimensional EDX approach, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (30), 19605, (2016); 
• Iulia Salaoru, Zuoxin Zhou, Peter Morris, Gregory Gibbons, Inkjet printing of polyvinyl alcohol multilayers for additive manufacturing applications, J.Appl.Polym.Sci., 133(25), 43572 (2016),
• Iulia Salaoru, A. Khiat, R. Berdan, Li Qingjiang, C. Toumazou, T. Prodromakis, Origin of the OFF state variability in nanoscale ReRAM cells, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 47, 145102, (2014).
• Li Qingjiang, Ali Khiat, Iulia Salaoru, Christos Papavassiliou and Themistoklis Prodromakis, Memory Impedance in TiO₂ based Metal-Insulator-Metal Devices, Scientific Reports 4, 4522, (2014), 

Currently supervising 1 PhD students (first supervisor)

6 PhD completions (as second supervisor) 

DMU internal examiner/reviewer of 4 PhD thesis

BSc & MSc& MPhil projects 

Frontrunner supervisor 

28/06/17 – 27/09/17 Erasmus Traineeship supervisor 

Royal Society International Exchange 2020; Understanding Graphene-based electronic memory devices, 2021/2024, Principal investigator

 Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships 2023, Graphene based electronic memory devices by green technology, 2024/2025, Principal investigator

2021 - 2022 Higher Education Innovation Funds (HEIF) - Digital manufacturing of graphene oxide memory devices ” PI, £5,000

2017/18 - De Montfort University Internal Research Fund - VC2020 Additional Funding; PI, £1,200

2017/18 - Higher education innovation funds (HEIF): Inkjet printing of graphene-based materials: a step forward to “green electronics”; PI; £14,300

2016/17 - Higher education innovation funds (HEIF): 3-D Printing of Greener, Leaner and Flexible Electronic Memory Devices; PI; £15,300

Guest Editor for: 3D Printing Materials: Innovation, Design and Future Technology in Materials and Miniaturized Memory Devices in Materials, MDPI Guest editor for a Special Issue “Miniaturized Memory Devices” in Micromachines, MDPI

 2020 Award for Research Engaged Teaching, De Montfort University

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy