Fionn Patrick Edward Dunne is a

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and holds the Chair in

Micromechanics Micromechanics (or, more precisely, micromechanics of materials) is the analysis of heterogeneous materials including of composite, and anisotropic and orthotropic materials on the level of the individual constituents that constitute them and th ...

and the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senio ...

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Research Chair. Dunne specialises in computational crystal plasticity and microstructure-sensitive nucleation and growth of short fatigue cracks in engineering materials, mainly

Nickel Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...

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and

Zirconium Zirconium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Zr and atomic number 40. First identified in 1789, isolated in impure form in 1824, and manufactured at scale by 1925, pure zirconium is a lustrous transition metal with a greyis ...

alloys.

Early life and education

Dunne completed a

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at the Department of Mechanical Engineering,

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, and

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degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering,

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by 1989, before moving to the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,

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, for a

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in ''Computer Aided Modelling of Creep-cyclic Plasticity Interaction in Engineering Materials and Structure''s.

Research and career

In 1994, Dunne was appointed as a Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester (

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), before being appointed a Research Fellowship at

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and the

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford The Department of Engineering Science is the engineering department at the University of Oxford. It is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences D ...

from 1996 until 2012. He became the dean of the department but moved to

in 2012. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. While in Oxford, Dunne was part of the Materials for fusion & fission power program. He led the ''Micro-mechanical modelling techniques for forming texture, non-proportionality and failure in auto materials'' program at the

between October 2011 and June 2012, when he moved the grant with him to the

Department of Materials, Imperial College London The Department of Materials is responsible for the teaching and research in materials science and engineering at Imperial College London, occupying the Royal School of Mines and Bessemer buildings on the South Kensington campus. It can trace ...

from June 2012 until it ended in March 2015. He also led the ''Heterogeneous Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across Length and Time Scales (HexMat)'' program, which was

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British UK Research Councils, Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical scienc ...

(EPSRC) funded at a value of £5 million between May 2013 and November 2018. Dunne was the director of the Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre at

. He is part of a £7.2 million program on ''Mechanistic understanding of Irradiation Damage in fuel Assemblies (MIDAS)'' that is funded by

until April 2024 As of November 2022, Dunne is a professor of

and holds the Chair in Micromechanics and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)/Rolls-Royce Research Chair. He is also a

consultant, and an honorary professor and co-director of the Beijing International Aeronautical Materials (BIAM). Dunne's research focuses on computational crystal plasticity, discrete dislocation plasticity, and microstructure-sensitive nucleation and growth of short fatigue cracks in engineering materials, mainly

, and

alloys.

Awards and honours

In 2010, Dunne was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and Scholarship, fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in United K ...

(FREng). In 2016, he was awarded the

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is a British engineering institution with activities including promotion of the development of materials science. It has been a registered charity governed by a royal charter and a member ...

(IoM3) Harvey Flower Titanium Prize. In 2017, Dunne's Engineering Alloys team shared the Imperial President's Award for Outstanding Research Team with Chris Phillips’s team.

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunne, Fionn Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Living people Academics of Imperial College London Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Year of birth missing (living people) British metallurgists