Professor Geoff Scamans

Co-Investigator
Professor of Metallurgy, Brunel University London

Address: BCAST, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK
Email: geoff.scamans@brunel.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)1895 266410
Website: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/bcast

Geoff Scamans is Professor of Metallurgy in BCAST at Brunel University. He earned both his BSc and PhD in Metallurgy from Imperial College. He started his research career in 1974 at Alcan International, initially as research scientist (1974-1982), senior research scientist (1982-1983) and later as principal scientist (1983-2003). More recently, he was the Chief Scientific Officer (2003-2007) at Innoval Technology. His expertise is in light metals and their applications in the automotive and aerospace industries, and in knowledge transfer from the research base to industry. Over the last 30 years he has initiated and managed a number of R&D programmes on both materials development and technological innovation, making substantial scientific and technological contributions to the light metals sector, described in over 130 publications. He is a Fellow and Vice President (LMD) of IOM3. He has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences, and has organised many international conferences on light metals, earning an international reputation in the light metals community. He is currently leading five DTI/TSB funded projects all related to light metals research.

Research interests: Recycling of post consumer aluminium scrap into transport applications. Control and exploitation of the corrosion and oxidation of aluminium alloys. Deformed surface layers on aluminium alloys.