Professor Paul Munroe |
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Director - Electron Microscope Unit (Also Professor – School
of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Email: p.munroe@unsw.edu.au
Ph: + 61 2 9385 4435
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6400 |
Qualifications |
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B.Sc (Hons), 1984, Ph.D., 1987 ( University of Birmingham), Grad.
Dip. H. ed. 1996 (UNSW) |
Role |
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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 |
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1998 – Present: Director (Associate Professor and from 2003 Professor)
- Electron Microscope Unit – University of New South Wales |
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1995- 1998: Deputy Director (and Senior Lecturer) - Electron Microscope Unit –
University of New South Wales |
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1994-1995: Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering,
Monash University |
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1990 – 1994: Director – Physical Sciences Electron Microscope Unit
– University of New South Wales |
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1987-1990: Research Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College |
Research Interests |
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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 |
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Philips Cowley-Moodie award for outstanding physical
sciences electron microscopy - 1996 |
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UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence – 2003 |
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Carrick Citation for Teaching - 2007 |
Grants |
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Currently Chief Investigator on 2 ARC Discovery projects, 1 Linkage project and 1 LIEF grant. |
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Chief contact at UNSW for funds made available through NCRIS 5.3 (Microscopy) |
Publications |
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Have published over 210 journal papers, recent selected papers include: |
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“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). |
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“ FIB-induced Damage in Silicon ” by S. Rubanov and P. R. Munroe, J. Microscopy, 214, 213-221, (2004). |
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“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). |
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“ 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). |
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“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). |
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“The Application of Focused Ion Beam Microscopy in the Material Sciences”, P.R. Munroe, Materials Characterization, 60, 2-13, (2009). |
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“Phase transformations in (111) Si following spherical indentation”, A. Haq and P.R. Munroe, J. Mater. Res., 24, 1967-1975, (2009). |
Editorial and Professional Activities
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Associate Editor – Materials Characterisation
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Editorial Boards of “Editorial Board for “Microscopy Research and Technique”, “Research Letters in Materials Science”, “Advances in Materials” |
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