Centre Advisory Board
	Professor David Young
	Emeritus Professor
		School of Materials Science & Engineering The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052
		Phone: + 61 (2) 9385 4322 Fax: +61 (2) 9385 5956 Email: d.young@unsw.edu.au
	Biography
	Professor Young leads the High Temperature Materials Group in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of New South Wales. His research concerns high temperature alloy-gas reactions, focusing on the thermodynamics of the resulting phase transformations, the consequent microstructural changes and the diffusion processes which support them. Examples of practical importance to industry include carburisation and metal dusting of heat resisting alloys, internal oxidation reactions and sulphur-accelerated high temperature corrosion.
	For fifteen years, Professor Young was Head of the School of Materials Science & Engineering at UNSW.  During that time, he led a process of change aimed at achieving a renewed focus on high quality research.   The School expanded considerably, and now houses over 120 research students.
	Prior to his role as Head of School, Professor Young was an academic in the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW.  Earlier he was a research officer at BHP Steel Research, and earlier still worked in Canada at the University of Toronto, McMaster University and the National Research Council of Canada.  In addition, he has had extended visiting research appointments at the University of Genova (Italy), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA), Forschungszentrum, Juelich (Germany) and Hokkaido University (Japan), and is an Honorary Professor at Northeastern University, Shenyang (China).
	He has published over 300 papers in the scientific literature, and two books (Diffusion in the Condensed State [with J. S. Kirkaldy], Institute of Materials, London, 1987; High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion of Metals, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008).  He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.  He has been awarded the Corrosion Medal by the Australasian Corrosion Association, the U. R. Evans Award by the Institute for Corrosion Science and Technology (UK) and the Outstanding Achievement in High Temperature Materials Award by the Electrochemical Society (USA).
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