Professor Anna Paradowska

Professor Anna Paradowska has been named recipient of the Australian Neutron Beam Users Group (ANBUG) Neutron Award for her outstanding research in neutron science and leadership promoting the Australian neutron scattering community.

Professor Paradowska has pioneered industrial engagement at Australias Nuclear Science and Technology Organisations (ANSTO) Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS), utilising neutron scattering techniques to solve industry problems with particular focus on advanced manufacturing.

Over the years, Professor Paradowska has developed successful collaborations with Australian and global industry as well as universities in the area of advanced and additive manufacturing.

The primary goal of her research is to relate residual-stresses, mechanical and metallurgical properties to manufacturing procedures and integrity requirements of engineering components.

I am delighted with this peer recognition as it is a fantastic feelingto know that my research contributions are being seen and appreciatedby the community, said Professor Paradowska, a co-appointed Professor Practice between the School of Civil Engineering and ANSTO.

Neutron scattering has an enormouspotential to help solve range of industry problems, and the full potential of those various method is yet to be discovered by the industry.

The award is the latest achievement for the international expert in neutron diffraction stress analysis, having previously been named recipient of the ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal for co-authoring materials paperIn Situ Study of the Stress Relaxation During Aging of Nickel-Base Superalloy Forgings.

The ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal is a prestigious prize intended to honour the author(s) whose paper has been selected as the best of those published in a specific volume ofMetallurgical and Materials Transactions.

As part of the project, Paradowska measured residual stresses in the superalloys duringin situheat treatmentson theKowari strain scannerand the same procedure was repeated at other neutron facilities.

The results demonstrated that thenewly-developed induction heating setup could be repeated successfullyon several instruments across three continents and reassure the scientific and industrial community that residual stress relaxation can be measured accurately and systematically.

Furthermore, Professor Jun Huang and Professor Marcela Bilek, who are also members of the University of Sydney Nano Institute have also been honoured for their engineering work.

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