Roger Charles Reed is a Professor of Engineering Science and Materials at the

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. He works at Oxford's

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, and is associated with its Departments of

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and

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. He is a

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at St. Anne's College, Oxford.

Education

Reed was educated at the

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, where he was awarded a

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in 1990 for research on multipass steel.

Career and research

Reed has held academic positions at

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, the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

(UBC), where he held a

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. During the period 2006 to 2012 he worked in the Dept of Metallurgy and Materials at the

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, where he acted as Director of Research. He moved to

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in 2013. He holds a visiting position at the

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. In 2017, Reed and his collaborators founded the

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company OxMet Technologies Ltd to commercialise some aspects of his research group’s efforts at the

. Reed's research is focused on high temperature materials and

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 ...

-based

superalloys A superalloy, or high-performance alloy, is an alloy with the ability to operate at a high fraction of its melting point. Key characteristics of a superalloy include mechanical strength, Creep (deformation), thermal creep deformation resistance, ...

for use in

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s and for generating power. Reed has also researched

deformation mechanism In geology and materials science, a deformation mechanism is a process occurring at a microscopic scale that is responsible for Deformation (physics), deformation: changes in a material's internal structure, shape and volume. The process involves p ...

s in single crystal superalloys under various mechanical fatigue conditions;

phase transition In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another. Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic Sta ...

s and

oxidation reaction Redox ( , , reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change. Oxidation is the loss of electrons or an increase in the oxidation state, while reduction is ...

s; as well as quantitatively studying

process modelling The term process model is used in various contexts. For example, in business process modeling the enterprise process model is often referred to as the ''business process model''. Overview Process models are processes of the same nature that a ...

for

welding Welding is a fabrication (metal), fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, primarily by using high temperature to melting, melt the parts together and allow them to cool, causing Fusion welding, fusion. Co ...

and

forging Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compression (physics), compressive forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer (often a power hammer) or a die (manufacturing), die. Forging is often classif ...

. His book ''The Superalloys: Fundamentals and Applications'' was published in 2006.

Awards and honours

Reed was elected a

of the Institute of Materials in 2005, a Fellow of

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in 2001, and Fellow of 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 ...

(FREng) in 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, Roger Living people Fellows of St Anne's College, Oxford British metallurgists Canada Research Chairs 1965 births Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Alumni of the University of Cambridge