Enrique Alabort
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Profile

I lead at the intersection of deep tech and commercial execution: scaling advanced manufacturing, driving new product introduction, and building teams that turn research into shippable products.

Oxford-trained in engineering; co-founder and senior leader at Alloyed. I combine technical depth with operational and commercial leadership. From the materials lab and the pilot scale to mass production.

Nine orders of magnitude

From the atom to the factory.

  1. γ′ precipitates300 nm
  2. Grain boundaries10 µm
  3. Unit cell500 µm
  4. Metamaterials5 mm
  5. Functionalised components50 mm
  6. Manufacturing system2 m
  7. Factories50 m
  1. Materials & process Alloy design, high-temperature processing, characterisation, simulation
  2. Product & digital factory Additive manufacturing, new product introduction, process stability, quality systems, factory sentience
  3. Business & operations P&L ownership, revenue growth, international operations, team building

Experience

Managing Director, Component Engineering

Alloyed

Leading component engineering and new product introduction; taking manufacturing technologies from proof-of-concept to mass-production.

Technology scaling

Managing Director, Electronics

Alloyed

Led electronics business unit (additive for consumer electronics). Core technologies for AR/VR wearables.

50%+ revenue growth · multi-million £ turnover

Head of Alloyed US and Japan

Alloyed

Built US manufacturing operation from zero: facility, hiring, AS9100D quality system.

Greenfield US operations

Senior Research Fellow

University of Oxford

Led high-value programmes with IHI for Oxford–IHI Centre for High-Temperature Materials.

Oxford–IHI Centre

Programme Director

OxMet Technologies

Founding team; led alloy and product design development for orthopaedic implants. Delivered technology base for biomedical implants business.

Founding team · biomedical

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Oxford

Finite element analysis and crystal plasticity modelling for extreme conditions.

Materials modelling

DPhil in Engineering Science

University of Oxford

Process modelling, manufacturing simulation, and high-temperature processing.

Rolls-Royce sponsored

Research & innovation

Fifty-one papers and six patent families over a decade. My research has focused on understanding the underlying physical mechanisms, designing the alloys and the geometries around that understanding, then taking it into differentiated products. Below, four public examples of some of my earlier work.

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2,836
citations
24
h-index
51
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6
patents
Citations per year · 2026 to date

Additive manufacturing · metamaterials

Metallic bone

Solid titanium is ten times stiffer than the bone around it. In a solid implant, the stiff material carries the load, and the bone, unloaded, resorbs. Metamaterials allow stiffness tailoring as another design variable. This work established how to do that, and then characterised the result, understanding how thin walls and beams really behave, in strength and in fatigue. The same design principle has been adopted for light-weighting and thermal management design.

Illustrative design space · hover a candidate

Computational alloy design

Alloys by design

Physics-based models score thousands of alloy candidates for the optimisation target. A handful will sit on the area where no property can improve without another giving way; this is the Pareto front. This method was used to produce a low-modulus titanium alloy for printed implants.

Grain boundary sliding · grains stay equiaxed as the sample stretches

Deformation mechanisms

Superplasticity

At the right temperature and strain rate, a fine-grained titanium alloy will stretch to several times its length without fracture. This is because the grains slide past one another and rotate rather than elongate. Watching that happen in situ, and modelling why, turned an empirical forming process into one that can be modelled and optimised. The understanding was used to design a titanium alloy for lower-cost superplastic forming.

γ′ cuboids in a γ matrix · a microtwin nucleates on {111}, thickens, and shears the precipitates it crosses

High-temperature materials · aerospace

Superalloys at temperature

Nickel superalloys hold a turbine together at temperatures where most metals melt. Their strength comes from a lattice of cuboidal precipitates, and their failure from the mechanisms that cut through them. This work pinned several of those mechanisms down: the microtwinning effect in single crystals, and the strengthening that boron does to grain boundaries. It built the miniaturised tests that let materials be assessed from grams of material rather than kilograms, and applied the alloys-by-design method to nickel.

Also — rate-dependent mechanics of adhesive joints for multi-material aerostructures, with Nik Petrinic's impact group: five papers, around 170 citations, including Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2019).

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Lattice to part

The struts you generated and scrolled through, fused into the porous shell of an acetabular cup for enhanced osseo integration.