Miguel de Brito Costa

Miguel is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group (357H). He is interested in exploring, developing, and using new materials, especially alloys and ceramics, to enable the next generation of structural and functional components and systems for spacecrafts and aerospace applications.


Education: 
  • PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge (2024)
  • MSc in Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology and Instituto Superior Técnico (2018)
  • BSc in Materials Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (2016)

Research Interests: 
  • Metallurgy
  • Functional alloys
  • Metallic glasses
  • Ceramic materials
  • Mechanical systems

Professional Experience: 
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2024– Present)
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Cambridge (2020–2024)
  • Engineering Trainee, European Space Agency (2019–2020)
  • Research Assistant, IST-R&D (2018–2019)

Selected Awards: 
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellowship Award (2024)
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship Award (2020)

Selected Publications: 
  1. M.B. Costa, J.J. Londoño, A. Blatter, A. Hariharan, A. Gebert, M.A. Carpenter, A.L. Greer, “Anelastic-like nature of the rejuvenation of metallic glasses by cryogenic thermal cycling”, Acta Materialia 244 (2023) 118551.
  2. A.L. Greer, M.B. Costa, O.S. Houghton, “Metallic glasses”, MRS Bulletin 48 (2023) 1054–1061.
  3. M.B. Costa, A.L. Greer, “Enthalpy of anelasticity and rejuvenation of metallic glasses”, Acta Materialia 265 (2024) 119609.
  4. M.B. Costa, R. Mateus, M. Guedes, A.C. Ferro. “Mechanical alloying in the Li-Sn system”. Materials Letters X 6 (2020) 100045.
  5. J.J. Londoño, M.B. Costa, F.F. Cai, F. Spieckermann, A. Levesque, S. Prades-Rödel, A.L. Greer, J. Eckert, A. Blatter, “Microalloying as a strategy to modulate antibacterial ion release from metallic glasses”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 968 (2023) 172121.
Miguel de Brito Costa
Address: 
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Mobile Number: (626)-630-9851
Email: 
migcosta@jpl.nasa.gov