Research Contribution He is responsible for the publication of a significant body of work, totalling over 300 journal papers. In the past 10 years, he has averaged about 20 journal papers a year in high-impact-factor journals. This work has attracted over 5,000 citations and has a H-Index of 35. His research is mostly focused on the characterization of materials using electron microscopy and related methods. This includes the publication of a significant body of work, about 50 journal papers, on focused ion beam technology. This work has received recognition through invitations to address many international conferences. He is currently active in a range of areas of materials characterization of materials such as functional thin films, intermetallic alloys and biochars. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for “Materials Characterization” and he is on the editorial board of a number of other journals including “Microscopy Research and Technique”.
Professor and Head of School
Professor Paul Munroe is the Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering. He completed a BSc (Hons) and PhD in Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham in the UK before spending three years at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire as a Research Assistant Professor. He came to Australia in 1990 to take up a position at the University of New South Wales. He was promoted to full professor in 2003. Until 2013 he was the Director of the Election Microscope Unit at UNSW.
Paul Munroe
Professional Experience
B Sci (Hons), PhD (Birmingham), Grad.Dip. H.Ed. (UNSW)
Paul has won a large number of ARC grants across a range of schemes and funding programs. He has secured over $20M in research funding. Professor Munroe was one of the founding architects of the NCRIS-funded Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF). Until very recently he served as the facility’s Technical Director. Teaching Contribution Paul is an accomplished teacher. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Higher Education from UNSW. He has been awarded a number of teaching grants, including funds awarded by ALTC. These funds have led to the development and implementation of a very successful suite of computer-based modules for the teaching of materials engineering and a suite of interactive on line training tools for teaching microscopy. Awards and Memberships • • •
UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004) Highly prestigious Carrick Citation from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Cowley-Moodie Award from the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society for ‘Outstanding Physical Sciences Electron Microscopy’.
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