Allan Matthews | |
---|---|
Born | Wigan, England |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | The University of Salford (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Engineering and Materials |
Sub-discipline | Tribology |
Institutions | University of Manchester |
Website | http://www.icam-online.org/about-us/governance/allan-matthews/ |
Allan Matthews FREng FRS FIMMM FIMechE FIET [1] (1952) [2] is professor of surface engineering and tribology at the University of Manchester [3] and director of the Digitalised Surfaces Manufacturing Network. [4]
Matthews attended Upholland Grammar School and completed his PhD at Salford University studying environmentally-friendly plasma-based processes,especially their use for coating industrial tools.[ citation needed ]
Matthews spent his early career in the UK aerospace industry,first with Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and then British Aerospace Dynamics Group.
He is known[ according to whom? ] as an early pioneer of the discipline of surface engineering,having founded a laboratory to research that subject at Hull University in 1982,where he established and directed the Research Centre in Surface Engineering. He and his research group led significant breakthroughs in plasma-assisted processes for surface treatment and coatings,in particular in thermionically-enhanced plasma processes for nitrogen and carbon-diffusion treatments of steels and titanium alloys,as well as oxide and nitride coatings to act as wear and heat-resisting barriers on cutting tools and aero-engine parts.
In 2002,he was invited to join the department of engineering materials at the University of Sheffield. There he continued research in plasma-based surface engineering and helped establish (and was executive director of) the Leonardo Centre for Tribology and Surface Technology, [5] [6] which was made possible through a benefaction by Dr. Peter Jost. In 2007 Matthews became head of department of materials science and engineering at the University of Sheffield.
In 2016,Matthews joined the academic staff in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester. Later that year Matthews was appointed Director of the International Centre for Advanced Materials (bp-ICAM)], [7] which is a $100 million collaboration [8] [9] between BP,The University of Manchester,Imperial College London,the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Cambridge. [10] In his tenure as Director,Matthews worked closely with the bp-ICAM Executive Director,Vernon Gibson CB FRS. [11]
During his time at The University of Manchester,Matthews has been an ambassador for Advanced Materials,facilitating networking between academia and industry,with a focus on the Tribology sub-theme. [12] [13] [14] [15]
Matthews has co-authored many peer-reviewed publications;most notably,Coatings Tribology:Properties,Mechanisms,Techniques and Applications in Surface Engineering,with Kenneth Holmberg. [16]
He has held positions with many Learned and Professional societies,including the British Vacuum Council,the Society of Vacuum Coaters,the AVS Advanced Surface Engineering Division (AVS-ASED) and the Surface Engineering Divisional Board of the IoM3. [17]
Matthews was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2012. [1] [18] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023. [19] In 2011,Matthews was awarded The Institute of Materials,Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Gold Medal for his "significant contribution to the industrial application of materials". [20] In 2018,Matthews was awarded the IOM3 Tom Bell Surface Engineering Medal in recognition of his work in the field, [21] [22] as well as the AVS-ASED R. F. Bunshah Award and Honorary ICMCTF lectureship [23] for "pioneering contributions to the science of surface engineering". He was also the recipient of the Donald Julius Groen Prize in 2005,and the IMechE Bronze Tribology Award in 1981 [24] [25]
In 1987,Matthews became an Editor of the Elsevier Surface and Coatings Technology journal, [26] becoming editor-in-chief in 2013.
His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), [27] [28] the European Union (EU),European Research Council (ERC) and other governmental and industrial sources.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences,mainly to universities in the United Kingdom. EPSRC research areas include mathematics,physics,chemistry,artificial intelligence and computer science,but exclude particle physics,nuclear physics,space science and astronomy. Since 2018 it has been part of UK Research and Innovation,which is funded through the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The Doctor of Engineering is a professional doctorate in engineering and applied science. An EngD is a terminal degree similar to a PhD in engineering but applicable more in industry rather than in academia. The degree is usually aimed toward working professionals.
The Institute of Materials,Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is a British engineering institution with activities including materials exploration,extraction,characterisation,processing,forming,finishing,application,product recycling and land reuse. Its stated goal is to promote and develop all aspects of materials science and engineering,geology,mining,mineral and petroleum engineering,and extractive metallurgy.
Vernon Charles Gibson is a British scientist who served as Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence between 2012 and 2016. He was reappointed to the MoD CSA role in May 2023. He is visiting professor at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford,Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester. He delivered the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Prince Philip Lecture on Military Education in Nov 2023.
AVS:Science and Technology of Materials,Interfaces,and Processing is a not-for-profit learned society founded in 1953 focused on disciplines related to materials,interfaces,and processing. AVS has approximately 4500 members worldwide from academia,governmental laboratories and industry.
The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is one of the three faculties that comprise the University of Manchester in northern England. Established in October 2004,the faculty was originally called the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. It was renamed in 2016,following the abolition of the Faculty of Life Science and the incorporation of some aspects of life sciences into the departments of Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Sciences. It is organised into 2 schools and 9 departments:Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science;Chemistry;Computer Science;Earth and Environmental Sciences;Physics and Astronomy;Electrical &Electronic Engineering;Materials;Mathematics;and Mechanical,Aerospace and Civil Engineering.
Nick Rhodes is a Reader in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Liverpool,in the U.K. Tissue Engineering can be described as the use of engineering techniques,including engineering materials and processes,in order to grow living tissues. Regenerative Medicine can be described as the treatment of defective tissues using the regenerative capacity of the body's healthy tissues. Rhodes describes the discipline as "aiming to repair tissue defects by driving regeneration of healthy tissues using engineered materials and processes."
Martin Stratmann is a German electrochemist and materials scientist. He is one of the directors at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf since 2000,and heads its department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering.
The A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize was awarded annually from 1965 to 2021 by the Institute of Materials,Minerals and Mining in commemoration of Alan Arnold Griffith.
Ivan Georgiev Petrov is a Bulgarian-American physicist,specializing in thin films,surface science,and methods of characterization of materials. His research and scientific contributions have been described as having an "enormous impact on the hard-coatings community". Petrov was the president of the American Vacuum Society for 2015.
Philip John Withers is the Regius Professor of Materials in the School of Materials,University of Manchester. and Chief Scientist of the Henry Royce Institute.
The Henry Royce Institute is the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research and innovation.
Anne Neville was the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in emerging technologies and Professor of Tribology and Surface Engineering at the University of Leeds.
Alan Hywel Jones,usually Hywel Jones professionally,is a British materials scientist,working on ceramic composites and body armour,tribology,metals,including sustainable use of precious metals and rare-earth elements,and decorative alloys,wear-resistant coatings,materials analysis and ballistics,and friction-stir methods. He has appeared on radio and television to discuss some of his areas of interest.
Camille Petit is a Reader in Materials Engineering at Imperial College London. She designs and characterises functional materials for environmental sustainability.
Ruth Cameron FInstP FIOM3 FREng is a British materials scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge. She is co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials,where she studies materials that interact therapeutically with the body. Since October 2020 she has been joint head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge.
Rachel Angharad Oliver is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Robinson College,Cambridge. She works on characterisation techniques for gallium nitride materials for dark-emitting diodes and laser diodes.
Natalie Stingelin,Fellow of the Materials Research Society and Royal Society of Chemistry,is a materials scientist and current chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology,the University of Bordeaux and Imperial College. She led the European Commission Marie Curie INFORM network and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances.
Kenneth Gösta Holmberg is a Finnish professor emeritus in Mechanical Engineering,especially Tribology,
The International Centre for Advanced Materials (ICAM) is a research partnership made up of the energy company,bp,and the four universities:The University of Manchester,The University of Cambridge,The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,and Imperial College London. The ICAM is an experimental organisation,both in its research and partnership model,with the University of Manchester acting as the administrative hub,and the other universities acting as the spokes. The research undertaken is focused on improving the processes integral to the energy industry,in particular how advanced materials can be used to solve the challenges faced. Some notable research includes work on 3D simulation of viscoplastic fluids and fouling mitigation strategies for synthesised foulants.