MAE Speaker Series Seminar on Hydrogen and Defects: Challenges and Opportunities

21 May 2026 02.00 PM - 03.00 PM LT3 (North Spine, NS4-02-32) Current Students, Public

Seminar Recording_Prof C.C. Tasan

Professor C.C. Tasan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

This seminar will be chaired by Prof Paulo Jorge Da Silva Bartolo.

Seminar Abstract

Hydrogen interactions with defects in metallic materials have been of engineering and scientific interest for more than 150 years. Here in this seminar, we will be discussing new in-situ methods to improve the understanding of these interactions. More specifically, we will discuss hydrogen - dislocation interactions in different steels, hydride formation mechanisms in different titanium alloys, and novel solutions for hydrogen embrittlement, including new coatings, surface treatments, and pumping technologies.

Speaker's Biography 

Professor Tasan is the POSCO Professor of Metallurgy. He earned his BS and MS in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at METU, Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey. He carried out his PhD work in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He then moved to Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany, where he was appointed first as a postdoc, and then as a group leader. He joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT as a faculty member in 2016 and was granted tenure in 2022. He has also been the Director of Materials Research Laboratory, since 2025.


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