New Staff in Metallurgy & Materials, March - July 2014
A round-up of new Metallurgy and Materials faculty March - July 2014
The School of Metallurgy and Materials has made several excellent new appointments over the past couple of months:
Dr Mary Taylor
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- High Temperature oxidation of alloys and metallic coatings.
- Oxidation of nickel-based superalloys, overlay and bond coats in thermal barrier coating systems.
- Development of a chromia forming thermal barrier coating system.
- Creep properties of metallic coatings
Dr Allan Walton
Senior Science City Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Rare Earth Magnet Research
- The use of hydrogen decrepitation to extract NdFeB magnets from electronic assemblies
- In-situ removal of magnets from large magnetic assemblies using hydrogen
- Corrosion protection for NdFeB magnets
- Recycling of rare earth magnets
- Strip casting of NdFeB
- Hydrogen Storage Research
- Melt spinning of magnesium based alloys
- Assessment of porous polymers for hydrogen storage
- Assessment of metal organic frameworks for hydrogen storage
- The use of 3-D laser confocal microscopy to visualise hydrogen interactions in-sit
- The use of hydrogen decrepitation to extract NdFeB magnets from electronic assemblies
- In-situ removal of magnets from large magnetic assemblies using hydrogen
- Corrosion protection for NdFeB magnets
- Recycling of rare earth magnets
- Strip casting of NdFeB
- Melt spinning of magnesium based alloys
- Assessment of porous polymers for hydrogen storage
- Assessment of metal organic frameworks for hydrogen storage
- The use of 3-D laser confocal microscopy to visualise hydrogen interactions in-sit
Other appointments include:
- Miss Jolade Azzan, Knowledge Transfer Specialist
- Dr Rengen Ding, Research Fellow
- Dr Timothy Doel, Research Fellow
- Dr Yangchun Dong, Research Fellow
- Dr Santiago Gallo, Research Fellow
- Mrs Parastoo Jamshidi, Research Fellow
- Dr Hangyue Li, Senior Research Fellow
- Miss Yu Lu, University/Industry Technical Liaison Expert
- Dr Milorad Novovic, Senior Research Fellow
- Miss Lydia Pickering, Research Fellow
- Mrs Rajinder Rattan, Marketing and Projects Officer
- Mr Max Turner, Business Engagement Manager
- Mr Yang Yue, Research Associate