ProfessorChristopher Gourlay
Professor of Physical Metallurgy
Department of Materials - Faculty of Engineering
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- Professor of Physical MetallurgyDepartment of Materials - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 8707 (Work)
- 301D, Bessemer Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Chris is a Professor of Physical Metallurgy within the Engineering Alloys research theme. He joined the Department of Materials in 2008 and was promoted to Professor in 2020.
Chris read metallurgy at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (MEng, 2002) and the University of Queensland, Australia (PhD, 2007). His PhD studies were conducted within the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing (the CAST CRC) on semi-solid deformation of Al and Mg alloys and microstructure development in high pressure die casting. He returned to the UK to join the Department of Materials at Imperial College London in 2008 on a RAEng/EPSRC Research Fellowship.
His group specialises in the origins of microstructure in phase transformations with a focus on alloy solidification. In recent years, research in the group has targeted understanding and controlling microstructure formation in electronic solder joints and lightweight magnesium and aluminium alloys. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials (FIMMM) and the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (FICME) in the UK. He is the current Chair of the Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Materials Committee (2023-27) at TMS in the USA.
Chris read metallurgy at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (MEng, 2002) and the University of Queensland, Australia (PhD, 2007). His PhD studies were conducted within the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing (the CAST CRC) on semi-solid deformation of Al and Mg alloys and microstructure development in high pressure die casting. He returned to the UK to join the Department of Materials at Imperial College London in 2008 on a RAEng/EPSRC Research Fellowship.
His group specialises in the origins of microstructure in phase transformations with a focus on alloy solidification. In recent years, research in the group has targeted understanding and controlling microstructure formation in electronic solder joints and lightweight magnesium and aluminium alloys. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials (FIMMM) and the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (FICME) in the UK. He is the current Chair of the Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Materials Committee (2023-27) at TMS in the USA.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Professor of Physical MetallurgyImperial College London, United Kingdom7 Sep 2020 - present
- ReaderImperial College London, United Kingdom5 Sep 2016 - 7 Sep 2020
- Senior LecturerImperial College London, United Kingdom4 Aug 2014 - 5 Sep 2016
- LecturerImperial College London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2012 - 4 Aug 2014
- RAEng/EPSRC Research FellowImperial College London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2008 - 1 Sep 2013
- Postdoctoral Research FellowThe University of Queensland, Australia1 Jan 2007 - 1 Jun 2008
DEGREES
- PhD, Materials EngineeringThe University of Queensland, Australia
- MEng, Metallurgy and the Science of MaterialsUniversity of Oxford, United Kingdom
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Physical Metallurgy