Anna Paradowska is an Australian engineer who is Professor in Advanced Structure Materials at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering and the

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Early life and education

Paradowska completed her master's degree in materials science at Wroclaw University of Technology. She moved to

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

as a doctoral researcher, where she specialised in mechanical engineering and the development of strategies to study stress in steel welds. After earning her doctorate, she joined the

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). It began as the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, merged with the At ...

working on the ENGIN-X beamline.

Research and career

In 2011, Paradowska joined the

. Paradowska develops neutron and synchrotron diffraction for residual stress analysis. She is interested in the welding process and developed the Kowari–Strain Scanner, looking to understand how the structure and stress in materials relate to they manufacturing process.

Selected publications

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References

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