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Alison Jean Davenport OBE CEng is the Professor of Corrosion Science at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham.

Education[edit]

Davenport studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge[1] where she was a member of King’s College, Cambridge.[2] She remained there for her graduate studies, earning her PhD in 1987.[3][1] Her PhD was in metallurgy, investigating the oxide layers that form on top of metals.[3][4]

Research and career[edit]

Davenport spent eight years as a staff scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, looking at synchrotron X-Ray techniques for corrosion and passivation of alloys.[citation needed]

In 1995 Davenport joined the University of Manchester. She was Associate Editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society between 1995 and 1997.[1] She has carried out several experiments at the Diamond Light Source and is a member of the I18 working group.[1] She was appointed to at the University of Birmingham and looked at the relationship between alloy microstructures and localised corrosion chemistry.[5] She developed X-Ray micro-tomography to study the growth of small cracks, allowing her to understand the transition from pits to cracks in metals.[6] She studies the relationship between microstructure and corrosion in stainless steel, titanium and aluminium.[7] She looked at the impact of grain boundary crystallography on intergranular corrosion.[7]

Davenport uses X-Ray imaging to study corrosion.[8] This information informs life-time prediction models.[8] She works with synchrotron facilities to develop in situ characterisation techniques to understand the mechanisms of corrosion.[9] Davenport leads an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) consortium to develop synchrotron methods to look at nuclear waste storage.[10][4] She has served as an international consultant on nuclear waste storage.[10] She collaborated with Owen Addison on how corrosion impacts biomedical implants.[4][11] Her group monitor the atmospheric corrosion of stainless steel alloys and have found that morphology is very sensitive to relative humidity and residual ferrite.[12][13][14] They identified how bipolar plates corrode in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.[15]

Awards and honours[edit]

In 2003 Davenport won the NACE International H. H. Uhlig Award for outstanding efforts in corrosion education.[16] In 2008 she chaired the Gordon Research Conference in aqueous corrosion.[17] She was made a member of the Innovate UK Advanced Materials Leadership Council and the Government of the United Kingdom expert group on materials science.[18] She was appointed a professor at the University of Birmingham in 2015.[4] In 2016 she delivered the Birmingham Metallurgical Association lecture.[19] She is on the working group of the Collaborative Computational Project in Tomographic Imaging.[20] She is part of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and is involved with their women in materials science activities.[21]

She was the Head of School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham (2016-2022).

Davenport was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to electrochemistry in the 2018 Birthday Honours.[22][23][24]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d “Professor Alison Davenport, Metallurgy and Materials – University of Birmingham”. www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  2. ^ “Queen’s Birthday Honours for King’s Graduates”. www.kings.cam.ac.uk. 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  3. ^ a b Davenport, Alison Jean (1987). Passivation of amorphous and polycrystalline metals. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 53516295. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.328717.
  4. ^ a b c d “Shedding Light on Corrosion”. www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  5. ^ Division, Electrochemical Society Corrosion (2001). State-of-the-art Application of Surface and Interface Analysis Methods to Environmental Material Interactions: In Honor of James E. Castle’s 65th Year, Proceedings of the International Symposium. The Electrochemical Society. ISBN 9781566773119.
  6. ^ “rae 2008 : submissions : ra5a”. www.rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  7. ^ a b “Technical Report 09-02” (PDF). NAGRA. 2009. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  8. ^ a b “Cambridge Materialeyes” (PDF). MSM. 2013. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  9. ^ “Prof. Alison Davenport (School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK) — Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering”. www.eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  10. ^ a b “Professor Alison Davenport – Science and Technology Facilities Council”. stfc.ukri.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-27. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  11. ^ Yu, Fei; Addison, Owen; Baker, Stephen J; Davenport, Alison J (2015). “Lipopolysaccharide inhibits or accelerates biomedical titanium corrosion depending on environmental acidity”. International Journal of Oral Science. 7 (3): 179–186. doi:10.1038/ijos.2014.76. ISSN 2049-3169. PMC 4582556. PMID 25634122.
  12. ^ Street, Steven R.; Cook, Angus J.M.C.; Mohammed-Ali, Haval B.; Rayment, Trevor; Davenport, Alison J. (2017). “The Effect of Deposition Conditions on Atmospheric Pitting Corrosion Location Under Evans Droplets on Type 304L Stainless Steel” (PDF). Corrosion. 74 (5): 520–529. doi:10.5006/2614. ISSN 0010-9312.
  13. ^ Cook, Angus J. M. C.; Padovani, Cristiano; Davenport, Alison J. (2017). “Effect of Nitrate and Sulfate on Atmospheric Corrosion of 304L and 316L Stainless Steels” (PDF). Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 164 (4): C148–C163. doi:10.1149/2.0921704jes. ISSN 0013-4651. S2CID 99388012.
  14. ^ Davenport, A. J.; Guo, L.; Mi, N.; Mohammed-Ali, H.; Ghahari, M.; Street, S. R.; Laycock, N. J.; Rayment, T.; Reinhard, C. (2014). “Mechanistic studies of atmospheric pitting corrosion of stainless steel for ILW containers”. Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology. 49 (6): 514–520. doi:10.1179/1743278214y.0000000183. ISSN 1478-422X. S2CID 136023665.
  15. ^ “Final Report Summary – STAMPEM (STAble and low cost Manufactured bipolar plates for PEM Fuel Cells) | Report Summary | STAMPEM | FP7 | CORDIS | European Commission”. CORDIS | European Commission. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  16. ^ “H.H. Uhlig Award”. www.nace.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-27. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  17. ^ “2008 Aqueous Corrosion Conference GRC”. www.grc.org. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  18. ^ KTN. “KTN | A vision of the opportunities for advanced materials: Short ‘vision papers’ from the Advanced Materials Leadership Council”. KTN. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  19. ^ “IOM3 | The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining”. www.iom3.org. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  20. ^ “About Us | CCPi Tomographic Imaging”. www.ccpi.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  21. ^ “WIM seminar success in Birmingham | IOM3”. www.iom3.org. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  22. ^ “Alison DAVENPORT”. www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  23. ^ “University of Birmingham academics’ success in Queen’s Birthday Honours List”. www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  24. ^ “Birthday Honours 2018: the Prime Minister’s list (CSV) – GOV.UK”. www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-26.