World Titanium Conference 2023

Prof Martin Jackson

Professor of Advanced Metals Processing, The University of Sheffield

Martin Jackson is currently Professor of Advanced Metals Processing at the Univ. Sheffield, United Kingdom. Martin worked at Rolls-Royce as a graduate trainee before studying his PhD at mperial College London. He was awarded the IOM3 Titanium prize in 2003 and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in 2005 to develop solid state processes for low cost titanium. Prof. Jackson is Director of the Sheffield Titanium Alloy Research (STAR) research group who work the aerospace, automotive and defence sectors. Martin first presented at the World Titanium conference in Hamburg (Ti-2003).

Titanium Research Developments in the United Kingdom

The paper presents highlights of the titanium alloy research developments since Ti-2019 (Nantes). The review underlines the strong and collaborative fundamental research conducted between UK universities, HVM Catapults and industry. The role of advanced characterisation and modelling techniques in order to better understand the effects of deformation during processing, fatigue loading and environment on titanium alloys continues to be world leading. Researchers in the UK are also continuing to develop a range of new approaches for the recycling and better utilisation of titanium.

: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/materials/people/academic-staff/martin-jackson,N/A,https://www.sheffield

Hui Chang

Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, NanjingTech University

Hui CHANG, obtained the PhD in materials science from the Northwest Polytechnical University and Institute National Polytechnique de Lorrain in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is now a professor of college of materials science and engineering in Nanjing Tech University, and became an International Organization Committee (IOC) member of world conference on titanium since Ti-2015 conference. His mainly interesting is focused on titanium phase transformation kinetics，microstructure evolution and low cost technologies research and development.

Takayuki Narushima

Professor, Tohoku University

Dr. Narushima joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tohoku University in 1987. He has been a professor since 2007, and served as the head of department since 2020. His current research interest on Ti and its alloys includes surface modification for biomedical applications.

: https://narushimalab-material-tohoku.jp

Benoît Appolaire

Professor, Université de Lorraine

Benoît Appolaire is currently professor of Metallurgy at Université de Lorraine, France. He carries out his research work at Institut Jean Lamour in Nancy, focusing on microstructure evolutions in metallic alloys, with a strong emphasis on numerical modeling. Titanium alloys have been his favorite playground for more than 20 years. His is now deputy director of Laboratory of Excellence DAMAS (Design of Alloy Metals for low-mAss Structures), and member of the scientific boards of the French Titanium Association and the French Materials Society SF2M.

Yvon Millet

Director R&D , Timet Savoie

Yvon Millet Graduated in 1982 from Ecole des Mines de Paris.

He has spent his entire career in titanium and zirconium manufacture: R&D, manufacture, quality, and projects.

He has been supervising titanium R&D projects in France and partly in the UK since 2009.

A Member of Association Française du Titane, member of SF2M and member of ASM.

Carsten Siemers

Senior Research Scientist / Head of Titanium Research Group , Technische Universität Braunschweig / Institute for Materials Science

Carsten Siemers heads the Titanium Research Group of the Institute for Materials at the TU Braunschweig. In 2012 Carsten Siemers has been elected chairman of the Titanium Technical Experts’ Committee of the German Materials Society (DGM), a liaison person between Academia and Titanium industry.

Adam L Pilchak

Alloys Fellow , Pratt & Whitney

Adam is currently the Alloys Fellow at Pratt & Whitney where he supports the development, manufacturing, and sustainment of gas turbine engines. In this role, he supports applied research in the areas of alloy development, materials processing, characterization, nondestructive evaluation, modeling & simulation, and performance of structural metallic materials. Adam earned his PhD from The Ohio State University in 2009 after studying under Prof. Jim Williams after which he spent 10 years at the Air Force Research Laboratory and 1.5 years at Materials Resources LLC. Adam began attending the World Titanium Conference series in Kyoto in 2007 and was a key member of the Editorial team for the Proceedings of Ti-2015. He is currently Chairman of the TMS Titanium Committee. 

Toshiki Sato

Adviser & Principal Researcher, Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Mr. Toshiki Sato is the Adviser and Principal Researcher of Materials Research Laboratory in Technical Development Group of Kobe Steel, LTD. He graduated from a master’s course of the graduate school of Kyoto University in 1986 and joined Kobe Steel in the same year. He has been in charge of development related to surface modification, PVD and CVD coatings and electrodeposition for metals such as titanium, aluminum, copper, iron and their alloys for more than 30 years.

Hideki Hosoda

Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Hideki Hosoda is a professor and a vice dean of Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Tech. He got Ph.D. from Tokyo Tech in 1993. His research focus is alloy design of shape memory and superelastic alloys.

: http://www.mater.pi.titech.ac.jp/,http://www.mater.pi.titech.ac.jp/
: hidekihosoda
: @http://www.mater.pi.titech.ac.jp/,http://www.mater

David Dye

Professor, Imperial College

David Dye is a Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials at Imperial College, London, UK. He joined Imperial College in 2003 from Chalk River, Canada, prior to which he did his PhD in Cambridge University. His work in titanium alloys has primarily concerned in-service degradation mechanisms in conventional wrought Ti alloys such as fatigue and stress corrosion cracking. He has also worked on metastable beta-Ti alloy deformation mechanisms, including orthorhombic martensite TRIP and TWIP, and on forging and microstructure development.

: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.dye
: @@daviddye9

Salaheddin Rahimi

Head of Materials Group, Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC)

Dr Salaheddin Rahimi, CEng FIMMM, leads the Materials and Residual Stress Team at the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC). He is an expert in the measurements, modelling and control of Residual Stress and materials properties during manufacturing. He has led the creation of the UK’s leading source of Residual Stress measurements and control at the AFRC for industrial purposes and as a platform for ongoing translational research. He has over 12 years of experience of planning and executing complex industry led translational research programmes.

: https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/advancedformingresearchcentre/
: @https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/advancedformingr

Nick Jones

Professor of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

Nick is Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He gained his MEng and PhD degrees from Imperial College, specialising in high strength Ti alloys. His research focusses on designing, developing and optimising alloys for enhanced engineering performance.

: https://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/people/jones,https://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/people/jones
: @https://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/people/jones,https://www

João Quinta da Fonseca

Professor of Mechanical Metallurgy, The University of Manchester

Professor João Quinta da Fonseca is currently Professor of Mechanical Metallurgy at the University of Manchester. He is the director of LightForm, a 5-year multidisciplinary project with core support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) programme grant scheme, where he leads the Ti research activity, which centres around understanding and modelling the microstructure evolution of Ti alloys during processing, and the effect of microstructure on their performance in service.

: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/joao.fonseca.html,@jqfonseca,https://www.research.manch
: João Quinta da Fonseca
: @https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/joao.

Deliang Zhang

Chair Professor, Northeastern University, China

Prof. Deliang Zhang, BE (Northeastern University of Technology, China 1985), DPhil (University of Oxford, UK ,1991), a chair professor at Northeastern University, China, leader of the advanced PM materials and technology laboratory, an international scholar in research on PM titanium alloys，published >280 papers.

Hongmin Zhu

Professor, University of Science & Technology Beijing

Dr. Hongmin ZHU received and Ph.D in metallurgy from Tohoku University in 1989. He was a visiting scientist at MIT (1997-2000), and NTNU (2000-2001). He has been a Professor at University of Science & Technology Beijing (USTB) since 2001, and in Tohoku University since 2013. His research activities are focused on chemical materials processing, and synthesis of functional materials. Particularly his research group has been developing the sustainable metallurgical process and recycling process for various active metals including titanium, aluminum, and rare earth metals.

Kayla Calvert

Global Director of Metallurgical Engineering, Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET)

Dr. Kayla Calvert is currently the Global Director of Metallurgical Engineering at TIMET based out of the Henderson Technical Laboratory (USA) and has been with TIMET since 2013. She oversees technical collaborations with aerospace customers worldwide and serves as an industrial advisor. Her research focuses on new titanium alloys and product development for aerospace applications, which includes high temperature titanium alloys and new processing routes for improved microtexture. She earned her BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in Materials Engineering.

Vasisht Venkatesh

Fellow, Materials Modeling & Behavior, Pratt & Whitney

Dr. Venkatesh is Materials Modeling and Behavior Fellow at Pratt & Whitney. Most recently, Vasisht has been leading industry wide activities related to the characterization of microtexture in Titanium alloys and developing models to predict its behavior under Cold Dwell Fatigue conditions.

Christoph Leyens

University Professor, Director, TU Dresden and Fraunhofer IWS

Prof. Dr. Christoph Leyens is a full professor for Materials Technology and director at TU Dresden as well as the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS Dresden. His research has covered high temperature lightweight materials including titanium, surface engineering, laser processing and additive manufacturing.

: www.iws.fraunhofer.de,#fraunhoferiws,www.iws.fraunhofer.de,#fraunhoferiws
: www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-leyens-2503a915a/
: @www.iws.fraunhofer.de,#fraunhoferiws,www.iws.fraun

Melissa Allen

Product Development, GfE Metalle und Materialien GmbH

I have been doing my Bachelor and Masters in Materials Science in Erlangen and finished in February 2017. In that time I started working as a student at GfE. I have learned a lot about titanium aluminides and the corresponding processes. Now I am working at GfE Nuernberg in the R&D department for Titanium aluminides. We are responsible for the process development as well as research in the alloy compositions.

Frederic Prima

Professor of Materials Science , Chimie ParisTech

Frédéric Prima is Professor of Materials Science in Chimie ParisTech, Paris, Fr. He graduated from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA Lyon) and obtained his PhD in Materials Science in INSA Rennes.  He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Oxford University Materials Department (UK) from 2000 to 2003. The work of his research group in mainly dedicated to the investigation of microstructures/properties relationships in titanium-based alloys with a focus on deformation mechanisms. Recently, his recent research has been focused on the design strategies and the development of new high-performance (TRIP/TWIP)titanium alloys for aerospace applications, in close collaboration with industrial partners. His group worked, as well, in the development of beta alloys for biomedical applications.

Christophe Petit

Chief Technical Officer, Aubert & Duval

Christophe Petit graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris with a PhD in Metallurgy. He spent 2 years in Carnegie Mellon University as Research Assistant He occupied different positions in ArcelorMittal, ending Head of Ironmaking. In 2011 he joined Eramet as SVP R&D, then SVP Quality of Alloys Division. He is now Chief Technical Officer of Aubert & Duval.

: www.aubertduval.com