The Division has announced with great pleasure that the next recipient of the UR Evans award, which will be presented at the 64th Corrosion Science Symposium (CSS), will be Prof Nick Birbilis.
Prof Birbilis has been a champion of corrosion education throughout his career with seminal contributions in many areas related to the discipline. He is currently the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. Previously he was the Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Woodside Innovation Chair at Monash University. His research interests include the broad areas of corrosion and corrosion control. His current focus is centred on microstructure-corrosion relationships, exploring the metallurgical factors that dictate localised corrosion initiation and propagation.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in 2001, and a PhD in 2004 (both from Monash). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University before joining the Monash University staff. More broadly, he has worked on materials characterisation, and the use of advanced manufacturing for the development of more sustainable and durable materials, including bio-inspired and hybrid materials. He has been Associate Editor of Electrochimica Acta since 2010, and has been active in several societies, including the ISE, ECS and NACE. Nick has received several awards and presented numerous invited lectures. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a Fellow of NACE. In 2016, Nick was awarded the ‘Woodside Innovation Chair’ at Monash, an industrially funded personal chair associated with durability of next generation materials.
The 64th CSS will once again join the Electrochem2023 meeting at the University of Bristol, on 11th and 12th September 2023.
