Annual Report

Prof Fionn Dunne, FREng,
MIMechE
Chair in Micromechanics
Department of Materials
Director of RR NUTC
Prior to coming to Imperial in
2012, Fionn was Professor of Engineering
Science at Oxford University. His current
research is in the fundamentals of deformation
and failure, particularly relating to hcp
polycrystal and Ni alloys and includes computational
crystal plasticity, discrete dislocation
plasticity, micro-deformation, fatigue crack
nucleation, texture and dislocation structure
development and polycrystal sonics for NDE.
He leads the EPSRC programme grant Heterogeneous
Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across
Length and Time Scales (http://www3.imperial.
ac.uk/hexmat), directs the Imperial Rolls-Royce
Nuclear University Technology Centre (http://
www3.imperial.ac.uk/rrnuclearutc), and Co-Directs
the AVIC-BIAM Centre for Materials (http://
www3.imperial.ac.uk/avic-biam).
Fionn is a consultant to Rolls-Royce, a member
of their Core Materials Working Group and was
a Royal Society Industry Fellow in 05/06, which
he spent with Rolls-Royce. He is Honorary Professor
with the Beijing Institute of Aerospace
Materials, and is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford
College Oxford.
zirconium. His group work on problems across
the life-cycle from alloy design to processing to
fatigue and failure. The impact of this research
is the delivery of safer, lower emissions air
transport and energy systems.
David has also worked at a number of nuclear
sites, including Berkeley labs in the UK and the
Chalk River labs in Canada.
Dr Matthew Eaton
Lecturer in the Nuclear
Engineering Group
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Matthew researches computational
radiation transport,
computational fluid dynamics,
nuclear criticality, cloud radiation physics, nuclear
reactor physics, radiation shielding and
dosimetry, infra-red optical tomography, highresolution
finite volume methods, sub-grid
scale modelling, non-linear Petrov-Galerkin
methods, mesh generation, coupled radiation/
heat/fluid dynamic problems and algebraic
multigrid solvers.
Matthew is also the NEA databank representative
for Imperial College and as such deals with
the dissemination of nuclear data, computer
programmes, and associated documentation.
Prof David Dye, FIMMM
Professor of Metallurgy
Department of Materials
David’s research interests focus
on the micromechanics of jet
engine, aircraft and reactor materials,
particularly superalloys, titanium and
Dr Joy H. Farnaby
Junior Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
Joy joined the Chemistry Department
in 2014 as a Junior
Research Fellow on a project entitled,
‘New routes to multi-metallic nono- and
bulk materials containing f-block elements.’
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