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Prof. A. L. Greer

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Lindsay Greer is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.

Office Address:

University of Cambridge
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Pembroke Street
Cambridge
CB2 3QZ
U.K.

Telephone: (01223) 334308 (direct); 334300 (switchboard)
Facsimile: (01223) 334567


Qualifications and Awards

1976:
B.A. (First Class Honours) in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, (Trinity Hall) Cambridge, UK.
1979:
Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Materials Science, thesis on 'Transformations of Metallic Glasses', supervised by Dr J.A. Leake, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
1989:
W.H. Zachariasen Award of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids .

Editorial Activities

May 1990 to May 1993:
Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research
April 1992 to December 1994:
Deputy Editor of Acta Metallurgica et Materialia
From April 1995:
Member of the Editorial Committee of Science et Genie des Materiaux (within Revue de Metallurgie)
From January 1996:
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Materials Science and Technology (China)
From April 1996:
Associate Editor of Materials Transactions JIM (Japan)
From September 1996:
Associate Editor of Philosophical Magazine A
From January 1997:
Editor of the International Journal of Non-Equilibrium Processing (previously International Journal of Rapid Solidification)

Organizational Activities

From 1985:
Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Conference on Rapidly Quenched Metals (Triennial).
30 November - 5 December 1987:
Co-organiser of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Multilayers: Synthesis, Properties and Nonelectronic Applications (Boston).
12-16 April 1993:
Co-organiser of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Phase Transformations in Thin Films: Thermodynamics and Kinetics (San Francisco).
12-16 July 1993:
Organiser of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Formation of Metastable Microstructures (Cambridge).
17-21 April 1995:
Co-organiser of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Materials Reliability in Microelectronics V (San Francisco).
11-14 September 1995:
Co-chairman of the Second International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (Cambridge).
November- December 1995:
Co-organiser of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations (Boston).
3-7 March 1996:
Member of the Programme Committee for the Third International Conference on the Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures (Breckenridge, Colorado).
November-December 1997:
Co-chairman of the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 1997 (to be held Boston).


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