Director - Professor Irina Belova

Research Professor in Materials Engineering
Australian Professorial Fellow
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Phone: +61 2 4921 5717
Fax: +61 2 4921 6946
Email: Irina.Belova@newcastle.edu.au

Degrees Conferred:
Master of Applied Mathematics, University of Novosibirsk, Russia, 1982
Doctor of Philosophy, Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Russian Academy of Science, 1990
Doctor of Science, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2001

Fellowships and Awards:
Australian Professorial Fellowship 2004
Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship 1999
University of Newcastle Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women 1993
J.G. Russell Prize (Australian Academy of Science) 1999
16 Keynote and Plenary talks

Editorial Boards:
Defect and Diffusion Forum (12 volumes and 2,000 pages per year) from 1998
Journal of Functional Materials from 2006

Research Interests:
Diffusion in multicomponent alloys (with Prof. Graeme Murch, Prof Marek Danielewski, Dr R. Filipek)
Demixing in ceramic oxides including YSZ and LSGM (with Prof. Graeme Murch, Prof. Manfred Martin)
Diffusion-driven phenomena in solid state processing technologies (with Prof. Graeme Murch, Prof. Andreas Öchsner)
Formation and stability of nanosize hollow particles of different geometries (with Dr Alexander Evteev, Dr Elena Levchenko and Prof. Graeme Murch)
Metal-dusting effect (with Prof. Graeme Murch)
Diffusion and defects in titanium dioxide for Solar-Hydrogen (with Prof. Janusz Nowotny, Prof. Graeme Murch).

International Collaboration:
Prof. Yuri Mishin (George Mason University, USA),
Prof. Manfred Martin (RWTH Aachen University of Technology, Germany),
Prof. Alan Allnatt (University of Western Ontario, Canada),
Prof. Paul Heitjans (University of Hanover, Germany),
Prof. Dhiraj Chaturvedi (Kurukshetra University, India),
Prof. Marek Danielewski, AGH University of Technology, Poland),
Prof. Andreas Öchsner (University of Aveiro, Portugal),
Prof. Alan Lidiard (Universities of Oxford and Reading)