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Professor Simon P. Ringer
Simon is Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis at the University of Sydney where he is Professor of Materials Science and Microscopy. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF).
He received a PhD from the University of New South Wales and a BAppSc (Metallurgy) from the University of South Australia, and he has held various academic and research positions in Sweden, Japan, the USA and Australia.
Simon is a metallurgist and materials scientist who applies many types of microscopy and microanalysis to advanced materials to find new and better ways for designing those materials. Key interests of his include the metallurgy of light alloys, particularly aluminium alloys, and methods for enhancing their performance through atomic-clustering processes; the metallurgy of advanced steels; and structure-property relationships in nanostructured and functional materials, such as nanotubes, semiconductor materials and devices, and polymer nanocomposites. Another of his research interests is technique development in advanced microscopy and microanalysis, particularly focussing on atom probe tomography, from improving data reconstruction to developing new methods for statistically analysing datasets that contain tens or hundreds of millions of atoms.
Simon has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers, and these have attracted more than 1450 citations. He is an editorial board member of the journals Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Materials Characterization, and Functional Materials Letters. He is an elected fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australasia (elected 2001) and has served on the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Electron Microscopy. Over the course of his career, he has been awarded more than $18 million in competitive grant funding for research, primarily from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Professor Paul Munroe
Paul is Director of the Electron Microscope Unit (EMU) of the University of New South Wales. He has experience as a research metallurgist and materials scientist, specialising in the application of microscopy and microanalysis to explore structure-property relationships in a range of materials, including intermetallic alloys and biochars. He has been director since 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2003.
He completed a BSc (Hons) and PhD in Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham in the UK before spending three years at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire as a research fellow. He came to Australia in 1990 to take up a position at the University of New South Wales.
He is responsible for the publication of a significant body of work, totalling over 300 papers. Since 2001, he has averaged about 15 journal papers a year in high-impact-factor journals. This work has attracted over 2400 citations. This includes the publication of a significant body of work, about 50 journal papers, on focused ion beam technology. This work has received recognition through invitations to address many international conferences. He is an associate editor for Materials Characterization and he is on the editorial board of Microscopy Research and Technique. He was awarded the Cowley-Moodie Award from the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society for 'outstanding physical sciences electron microscopy'. Paul has won a number of ARC grants across a range of schemes and funding programs.
Paul is also an accomplished teacher. He has been awarded a number of teaching grants leading to the development and implementation of a very successful suite of computer-based modules for the teaching of materials engineering. This has led to a number of publications in pedagogical journals and conference proceedings. Publishing rights to the web-based modules generated have been acquired by Elsevier and are now linked to the internationally recognised 'standard' introductory materials science textbook Engineering Materials by Ashby and Jones. As part of this work, Paul won the UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004 and a highly prestigious Carrick Citation from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
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