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Anne Neville
OBE FRS FRSE FREng FIMechE
Anne Neville at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
BornMarch 1970 (age 54)[3]
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow (BEng, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds[1]
Heriot-Watt University
ThesisAn investigation of the corrosion behaviour of a range of engineering materials in marine environments (1995)
Doctoral advisorTrevor Hodgkiess[2]
Websiteengineering.leeds.ac.uk/staff/230/Professor_Anne_Neville

Anne Neville OBE FRS FRSE FREng FIMechE[4] (born 1970)[3] is the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in emerging technologies and professor of Tribology and Surface engineering at the University of Leeds.[5][6]

Education

Neville was educated at Maxwelltown High School[3] in Dumfries and the University of Glasgow where she was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1992 followed by PhD in mechanical engineering in 1995.[2][1]

Neville went into engineering by accident. The Glasgow University prospectus fell open at the page with a Rolls-Royce gas turbine picture and she thought it looked interesting. Her Maths teacher was a mechanical engineer and could tell her about what was involved. After visiting the university open days, she was completely sold on this. She was very close to either studying Maths or Physics.[citation needed] As part of her PhD, she conducted an experimental study of corrosion and tribocorrosion processes on high alloy stainless steels and Ni-alloys and her work led to an increased understanding between the synergies that exist between corrosion and wear processes.[2]

Career and research

Neville is a mechanical engineer with a specific interest in corrosion, tribology and Processes that occur at engineering interfaces. After her PhD, she was appointed a lecturer at Heriot-Watt University immediately after PhD and started to build a research team. This team grew to 25 researchers in the following years and in 1999 she was promoted to Reader and then Professor in 2002. Neville and her group moved to Leeds in 2003 where she is now Director of the newly formed Institute of Functional Surfaces (iFS) which comprises 70 researchers. The institute has a funding portfolio that spans many agencies and industrial sectors including medical, oil and gas & automotive.

Her research group was the first to measure corrosion rates in-situ in hip joint simulators. This was very important in the most recent controversies around metal-on-metal implants. They have used advanced microscopy x-ray spectroscopy to understand how surfaces are lubricated in industrial and medical components.[citation needed]

Awards and honours

Neville was an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Fellow from 1999 to 2004,[7] elected a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE),[when?] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2005 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2010.[4]

She was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2011, the Donald Julius Groen Prize for Tribology in 2012, the 2014 STLE Wilbert Shultz Prize, Royal Society Wolfson Research MERIT Award in 2013 and was selected as an EPSRC RISE Fellow in 2014.[8] She was the first woman to be awarded the James Clayton Prize and was awarded the Leverhulme Medal in 2016 for "revealing diverse physical and chemical processes at interacting interfaces, emphasising significant synergy between tribology and corrosion.”

Neville was appointed OBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to engineering.[9] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[4]

Views

Neville believes that more women in engineering could be achieved by ensuring that at primary school level we have the same number of girls and boys engaging with technology.[10] We must ensure we don't 'lose' talented girls to science and medicine as they progress through secondary school. She has never found any problems with discrimination either in her dealings with the industry (which are extensive) nor in the academic sector. However, the proportions of girls entering engineering, especially mechanical engineering, does not seem to be rising as quickly as it could.[citation needed]

"Male or female… go for it! You will have the time of your life. I can honestly say I love my job. As an academic in engineering I can do what I want in terms of research as long as I can raise the funds to pay for it. This is a real privilege. I have travelled the world, met some brilliant people and have had great fun. What else could you ask for in a job?"[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Engineering. "Profile for Professor Anne Neville | School of Mechanical Engineering | University of Leeds". University of Leeds. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Neville, Anne (1995). An investigation of the corrosion behaviour of a range of engineering materials in marine environments. theses.gla.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. OCLC 500018733. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.421892. Free access icon
  3. ^ a b c Anon (2014). "Neville, Prof. Anne". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.257456. {{cite encyclopedia}}: More than one of |surname= and |author= specified (help); Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  4. ^ a b c Anon (2017). "Professor Anne Neville OBE FREng FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017.
  5. ^ Anne Neville's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Anne Neville ORCID 0000-0002-6479-1871
  7. ^ Anon (2004). "Professor Anne Neville FREng". epsrc.ac.uk.
  8. ^ [pm11dt], Daniel Theobald. "Leeds Professor becomes EPSRC RISE fellow". engineering.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2016. p. N13.
  10. ^ "Professor Anne Neville". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Professor Anne Neville". Retrieved 14 June 2017.
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