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2009 winner
The winner of the 2009 Acta Materialia Inc. Materials & Society Award ( formerly the J. Herbert Hollomon Award) is Dr. Carolyn Hansson, P. Eng., who is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Professor Hansson is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the US Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), the UK Institution of Materials, and the American Concrete Institute.
Dr. Hansson is an internationally recognized scientist and engineer. Her contributions, both in basic science and applied engineering, to the many aspects of environmental degradation of materials, particularly the corrosion and erosion of metals and alloys during service, have had a profound and lasting impact on the interactions between Materials and Society. Dr. Hansson’s creativity, vision, achievements and influence on her field are specifically honoured by the present Award.
A graduate in metallurgical engineering from the Imperial College, London University, Dr. Hansson’s career included living and working in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Denmark and Canada. She has carried out leading edge research on corrosion, erosion and environmental durability of metallic alloys and of cement-based materials. Starting at the Martin Marietta Research Laboratories in the USA, her career continued with terms in academia, first at Columbia University, New York, and then the State University of New York, where she became Professor of Engineering, and later served as Chair of the Materials Science Department. In 1976 she joined the AT&T Bell Labs for four years, followed by nine years as Research Scientist, and eventually as Head of the Research Department at the Danish Corrosion Centre. In 1990, she returned to academia as Professor and Head of the Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department, Queen’s University, Ontario, and then joined the University of Waterloo in 1996 as Vice President, University Research, until 2000.
Dr. Hansson’s research over the years, particularly on the chloride-induced corrosion of the reinforcing bars embedded in concrete, have had a major role in linking the basic materials science with the consequences of environmentally damaging exposure and the engineering applications and service performance of materials. Most recently, these include the understanding and service life assessments of degradation in highway structures, focussing on improvements in the composition and processing of both the reinforcement and the concrete.
Professor Hansson is the author, or co-author, of more than 130 scientific papers and reports in the area of her specialties. She received the Robert Lansing Hardy Gold Medal of the Metallurgical Society of AIME in 1970, spent a year as a Guggenheim Fellow at Cambridge University, England, and was the ASM International Campbell Memorial Lecturer in 1993. Her professional and societal contributions include service at various times on numerous public and private sector boards, committees, editorial boards, and advisory panels. In 1987, she was elected to the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and, in 1998 she received the highest engineering honour in Canada, the election as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE).
Hansson was selected as the 2009 awardee by an international panel of judges appointed by the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia, Inc. and will receive this prestigious award in 2009 during the Spring Meeting of TMS in San Francisco, CA.
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