SteelSIM 2023

Professor Claire Davis FIMMM

RAEng / Tata Steel Professor in Low Energy Steel Processing, WMG, University of Warwick

Professor Davis was previously the Professor of Ferrous Metallurgy at the University of Birmingham. She gained her undergraduate degree and PhD from Cambridge University. She was sponsored by British Steel (now Tata Steel) during her undergraduate degree and PhD and spent two months at Nippon Steel as part of a research experience for European students. Professor Davis became a National Teaching Fellow in 2001 and has received numerous awards and grants for educational activities and pedagogy.

Professor Davis is a member of the Rail Research UK (RRUK) Association and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Ironmaking and Steelmaking. She was a guest editor for Materials Science and Technology Special Issue on Microalloyed Steels in 2009.

Professor Davis has published over 100 papers in international journals, given invited and keynote lectures and has/is supervising 31 doctoral students and 6 Masters students.

Dr Martin Strangwood FIMMM

Associate Professor, WMG, University of Warwick

Martin Strangwood is a senior lecturer and runs the Phase Transformations and Microstructural Modelling Group at the University of Birmingham. His research interests lie in the quantification of structures and properties for a range of materials, relating these to processing conditions, composition and eventual properties.

The physical relationships established are then used with thermodynamic and kinetic models to optimise processing and composition combinations. Much work has been carried out on various grades of steel, although aluminium-, titanium-, nickel- and copper-based alloys also feature. Processing steps investigated include casting (continuous, ingot and ESR), reheating, rolling, forging, heat treatment and welding. 

As well as structural metallic alloys various composites, polymers and ceramics have been studied. The polymers and polymer matrix composite applications are often related to sports such as golf, cricket, cycling, hockey, rowing and running. He has been invited to give many presentations on the use of materials in sports equipment. He has been consulted by a number of sports bodies.

He has published over 200 refereed papers and contributed 10 book chapters.

Professor Hongbiao Dong FREng, FIMMM

Professor of Materials Engineering, Research Chair of Royal Academy of Engineering, University of Leicester

Hongbiao Dong is a Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Leicester, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering. He obtained his DPhil in Materials Science in Oxford and his Master and Bachelor Degree at University of Science and Technology Beijing. He has made significant contributions in solidification modelling and its application in casting and welding. His work has been exploited in various sectors, including in aerospace by Rolls-Royce, energy by the Welding Institute and steel by NISCO and Materials Processing Institute.

Dr John Hinton

Senior Process Metallurgist, Primetals Technologies Limited

Dr John Hinton is a Senior Process Metallurgist at Primetals Technologies Ltd. in Sheffield, UK. He has 15 years’ experience in academic steel research and metallurgical plant solutions for the steel and aluminium industries. He has key expertise on through process physical metallurgical issues during steel production, particularly final structure property relationships, surface quality and the electromagnetic measurement of changes in steel metallurgy.