Philip Nash

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Professor Philip Nash received his B.Sc. in Metallurgy in 1973 from City of London Polytechnic and his PhD in Materials Science in 1978 from Queen Mary College, University of London, U.K. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Professor David West at Imperial College, University of London determining ternary phase diagrams of Nickel-base alloys. He joined IIT’s Metallurgical Engineering Department in 1981 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He is currently the Charles and Lee Finkl Endowed Chair in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in the Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department and also serves as the Director of the Thermal Processing Technology Center at IIT since it was founded in1999. He is the FIERF Magnet School Professor and is an editor of Journal of Materials Science. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of ASM International and in 2012 received the Charles Hatchett award for the best paper published on the science and technology of niobium and its alloys from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London, UK. He was appointed a Guest Professor of Tianjin University in 2012 and has taught a summer course there every year. He is co-inventor on two patents relating to steel processing and alloy design. Professor Nash’s research is in physical and process metallurgy and has included particle coarsening, experimental determination of phase diagrams, experimental thermodynamics, forging simulations, bainite transformation studies, fatigue of steel plates, precipitation in aluminum alloys, titanium powder metallurgy, metal matrix/carbon nanotube composites, solid oxide fuel cells, additive manufacturing and functional intermetallics. He has published more than 200 journal articles and edited several books. He has advised the research of 40 PhD students and more than 50 MS students.