PhD Thesis Online!

Dear all,

With great happiness I announce that the final version of my PhD thesis is now online and it can be downloaded here:

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35253/

Thesis examination board was composed by:

Professor Steve G. Roberts (University of Oxford)
Professor Konstantina Lambrinou (University of Huddersfield)

They really helped me with a good and detailed revision of the thesis text!

I would like to personally thank some people for that thesis in special my PhD supervisor Professor Stephen E. Donnelly, Professor Vladimir Vishnyakov and Dr. Graeme Greaves, all at the University of Huddersfield, as they are the scientists that I have worked close during my years in United Kingdom.

In addition, this work could not be completed without the help and support of Dr. Phil Edmondson (ORNL-USA) and Professor Stefan Pogastcher (Montanuniversitaet Leoben – Austria) to whom I would like to express my eternal gratitude!