Christos Sofras

Dr. Christos Sofras is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), specializing in additive manufacturing, alloy design and microstructure engineering. He earned his PhD in Materials Science from EPFL, where his thesis focused on exploiting Laser Powder Bed Fusion to manipulate crystallographic textures in stainless steels and activate deformation mechanisms such as TRIP and TWIP. Before joining EPFL, he obtained his diploma in Mining and Metallurgical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. His work combines advanced characterization methods, including synchrotron and neutron diffraction, aiming to establish processing–structure–property links.