Professor Paul Munroe

Position

Director - Electron Microscope Unit (Also Professor – School of Materials Science and Engineering

Contact

Email: p.munroe@unsw.edu.au
Ph: + 61 2 9385 4435
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6400

Qualifications

B.Sc (Hons), 1984, Ph.D., 1987 ( University of Birmingham), Grad. Dip. H. ed. 1996 (UNSW)

Role

Academic leadership of the Unit, responsibilities for personnel issues, financial and business issues, OHS compliance, overall responsibility for materials spec prep, Philips CM200 FEGTEM, Hitachi 4500, JEOL 8500F, Hitachi 3400, Hitachi S900, FIB and Nova 200 Nanolab.

Currently Technical Director of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF)

Background

1998 – Present: Director (Associate Professor and from 2003 Professor) - Electron Microscope Unit – University of New South Wales

1995- 1998: Deputy Director (and Senior Lecturer) - Electron Microscope Unit – University of New South Wales

1994-1995: Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University

1990 – 1994: Director – Physical Sciences Electron Microscope Unit – University of New South Wales

1987-1990: Research Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Research Interests

Microstructure-property relationships in intermetallic compounds; ion beam – specimen interactions; thin film deformation; analysis of thermal spray processed materials, generation of three-dimensional microstructural visualizations, examination of biochar

Awards

Philips Cowley-Moodie award for outstanding physical sciences electron microscopy - 1996

UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence – 2003

Carrick Citation for Teaching - 2007

Grants

Currently Chief Investigator on 2 ARC Discovery projects, 1 Linkage project and 1 LIEF grant.

Chief contact at UNSW for funds made available through NCRIS 5.3 (Microscopy)

Publications

Have published over 190 journal papers, recent selected papers include:

“Metal Dusting of Fe-Cr and Fe-Ni-Cr Alloys under Cyclic Conditions”, C.H. Toh, D.J. Young and P.R. Munroe, Oxidation of Metals, 58 , 1-21 (2002).

“The Paramagnetic to Ferromagnetic Transition in B2-structured FeAl Single Crystals: Experiments and Calculations”, D. Wu, P.R. Munroe and I. Baker, Phil. Mag., 83, 295-313, (2003).

“Enhanced Recovery in an Aluminium Alloy Containing Alumina Particles”, M. Ferry and P. R. Munroe, Mater. Sci. and Eng. A, 358 , 142-151, (2003).

“Scratch Damage in Ceramics: Role of Microstructure”, Z-H Xie, M. Hoffman, R. Moon, P.R. Munroe and Y-B Cheng, J. American Ceramic Soc., 86, 141-148, (2003).

“ FIB-induced Damage in Silicon ” by S. Rubanov and P. R. Munroe, J. Microscopy, 214, 213-221, (2004).

“Transport Properties of Multilayered MgB 2/Mg 2Si Superconducting Thin Film”, Y. Zhao, M.J. Qin, S.X. Dou, M. Ionescu and P. Munroe, J. Applied Physics, 99, 08M503 (2006).

“Nanoindentation-Induced Deformation Behaviour of Diamond-like Carbon Coatings on Silicon Substrates” A. J. Haq, P.R. Munroe, M. Hoffman, P.J. Martin and A. Bendavid, Thin Solid Films, 515, 100-1004 , (2006).

“ Three Dimensional Imaging of Deformation Modes in TiN-Based Thin Film Coatings”, L.W. Ma, J.M. Cairney, D. McGrouther, M. Hoffman and P.R. Munroe, Thin Solid Films, 515, pp. 3190-3195, (2007).

“Microprocesses in Nickel Accompanying Metal Dusting”, J. Zhang, P. Munroe and D.J. Young, Acta Mater , 56, 68-77 (2008).

“Effect of temperature on metastable phases induced in silicon during nanoindentation”, R. K. Singh, P. Munroe and M. Hoffman, J. Mater. Res., 23, 245-249, (2008).