Barbara Shollock

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Barbara Ann Shollock FREng is a metallurgist focusing on nickel-based superalloys and other advanced alloys, including their mechanical properties and the growth and selection of crystal grains in their formation. Educated in the US and England, she works in England as head of the Department of Engineering at King's College London.[1]

Education and career[edit]

Shollock was an engineering student as an undergraduate at Lehigh University, became a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs, and while at Bell Labs earned a master's degree from Lehigh. She completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford.[2]

After postdoctoral research in Keble College, Oxford as a Rolls Royce Junior Research Fellow from 1988 to 1991,[3] she joined the academic staff at Imperial College London.[2] She became a senior lecturer there, before moving to the University of Warwick in 2014 as the holder of a Tata Steel Chair in Advanced Characterisation and Coatings.[4] In 2019 she moved again, to her present position at King's College London.[2]

Recognition[edit]

Shollock was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023, "for her research contributions to the fundamental, theoretical and experimental understanding, development, and performance enhancement of advanced metallic alloys".[5][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Professor Barbara Shollock", King's People, King's College London, retrieved 2023-09-25
  2. ^ a b c "Barbara Shollock, College Governor", People, King's Maths School, retrieved 2023-09-25
  3. ^ "88 Years of Engineering at Keble" (PDF), Keble Record, pp. 11–15, 2007, retrieved 2023-09-25
  4. ^ "Leading academics appointed to new Tata Steel Chairs at Warwick", News & Events, University of Warwick, 30 January 2014, retrieved 2023-09-25
  5. ^ "Head of Department of Engineering, Professor Barbara Shollock, elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering", News Centre, King's College London, 20 September 2023, retrieved 2023-09-25
  6. ^ "Professor Barbara Shollock FREng", Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows 2023, Royal Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2023-09-26

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