Thomson, Rachel - Loughborough University

个人简介

Rachel read for a degree in Natural Sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge University between 1986 and 1989, specialising in Physics. She then carried out her PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, also at Cambridge, between 1989 and 1992. For the following 3 years she held the position of Research Fellow in the same department, supported by SERC (now EPSRC) and Rolls-Royce plc. Between 1993 and 1995 she was awarded a non-stipendiary Research Fellowship at Darwin College, Cambridge University. In 1995, Rachel moved to a lectureship in the Materials department at Loughborough University, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1999 and to a Personal Chair in 2002. She became the Director of the Materials Research School, one of 5 multidisciplinary Research Schools in the University, in September 2006 and from December 2013 was the Research Challenge Leader for the "Enabling Technologies" research challenge, one of the six overarching research challenges adopted by the University. Rachel became Head of the Department of Materials in 2011, from May 2014, becoming Dean of the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering (AACME) and from September 2016 was appointed Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching

研究领域

The development of models to enable the prediction of microstructure and mechanical property evolution in metal alloys as a function of the initial processing and also subsequent service. Development of new alloys and coatings, and understanding of degradation mechanisms for steels, superalloys, cast irons and Al-Si alloys. Experimental characterisation using advanced techniques

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Li, L., MacLachlan, R. C., Jepson, M. A. E., & Thomson, R. C. (2013). Microstructural Evolution of Boron Nitride Particles in Advanced 9Cr Power Plant Steels. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 44(7), 3411-3418. Karunaratne, M. S. A., Di Martino, I., Ogden, S. L., Oates, D. L., & Thomson, R. C. (2012). Modeling of Microstructural Evolution in an MCrAlY Overlay Coating on Different Superalloy Substrates. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 43A(2), 774-788. Child, D. J., West, G. D., & Thomson, R. C. (2012). The use of combined three-dimensional electron backscatter diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray analysis to assess the characteristics of the gamma/gamma-prime microstructure in alloy 720Li™. Ultramicroscopy, 114, 1-10. Child, D. J., West, G. D., & Thomson, R. C. (2011). Assessment of surface hardening effects from shot peening on a Ni-based alloy using electron backscatter diffraction techniques. Acta Materialia, 59(12), 4825-4834. Karunaratne, M., Ogden, S. L., Kenny, S. D., & Thomson, R. C. (2009). A Mulitcomponent Diffusion Model for the Prediction of Microstructural Evolution in Coated Ni-based Superalloy Systems. Materials Science and Technology, 25((2)), 287-299.