International Technical Advisory Committee
	Dr. Allan Morton
		•	BSc (Hons. 1), PhD
	CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Engineering (CMSE)
		CSIRO, Gate 5, Normanby Road Clayton, Victoria, 3168
		Phone: +61 (3) 9542 2860 Fax: +61 (3) 9545 2175 Email: allan.morton@csiro.au
	Research interests
	Major research interests include: Aluminium, magnesium and titanium alloy development, light alloy processing and Transmission electron microscopy.
	Scientific and Professional History
	Following graduation as Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy with First Class Honours and the University Medal conferred on him by the University of New South Wales in 1959, Dr Morton was awarded an Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering post-graduate Studentship for research towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy also at USW. The thesis, “A Study of the Homogeneous Strain Accompanying the Formation of a Martensite Plate”, submitted in June 1963 resulted in the award of Doctor of Philosophy in May 1964.
	In November 1963 he took up a CSIRO Post-doctoral Fellowship to continue his phase transformation research working with Profs. C.M. Wayman and T.A. Read in the Department of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum Engineering, University of Illinois, USA and in August 1964 he was appointed to the position of Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois.
	On returning to Australia in 1965 Dr Morton joined CSIRO, Division of Tribophysics, Melbourne as a member of the Metal Physics group led by Dr. Leo Clarebrough, moving from phase transformations to the characterisation of defects in crystalline materials using transmission electron microscopy and image computation. By 1970 the Metal Physics group was a world leading group in the in the application of electron microscopy to the identification of defects in metals and alloys and he continued this work as his main research activity until 1985.
	At that time Dr Morton initiated the Alloy Development project within CSIRO, successfully growing the project team from five to twenty researchers. In 1990 he was appointed Program Manager, Alloys Research and Development, CSIRO Materials Science & Technology and in 1997 was appointed Deputy Chief, CSIRO Manufacturing Science & Technology with particular responsibility for the science and engineering standards of the laboratory. In 2002 he accepted the position of Deputy Chief (Research) in the newly formed CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology (CMIT).
	Dr Morton retired from CSIRO in January 2003 but since that time has remained active with Honorary Research Fellowship positions at Monash University, Department of Physics and Materials Engineering and at CMIT (now Materials Science and Engineering) as well as some consulting in the light alloys area.
	His career in science has involved significant collaboration with a number of laboratories overseas, mainly in the Europe, but also in the USA and in Japan. Major involvements included:
	•	1981/82 - SRC Senior Visiting Fellowship at the Department of Metallurgy and Science of Materials, University of Oxford.
	•	1989/90 and 1991/93 – Collaboration with CNRS (France) and SNECMA on high temperature creep and fatigue deformation of Ni-base superalloys.
	•	1990 and 1993 - Guest Scientist with the CNRS-LMS, Orsay, France.
	•	1992/95 – Collaboration with Aerospatiale, ONERA and Comalco on creep resistant aluminium alloys.
	•	2004 – Guest Scientist at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA.
	Throughout his career Dr Morton been a member of a number of organisations and committees relating to metallurgy, including Australia’s National Committee for Electron Microscopy from 1986 to 1994 and Course Advisory Committee, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1990. From 1999 to 2003, he served on the Boards of two Co-operative Research Centres, the CRC for MicroTechnology and the CRC for Cast Metals Manufacturing and in 2003 he was a director of Cast Centre Pty. Ltd. He was also the Australian representative in the Vacuum Metallurgy Committee of the International Union for Vacuum Sciences, Techniques and Applications (IUVSTA) for the period 1998-2003.
	Selected publications
	1.	Lumley, R.N., Polmear, I.J. & Morton, A.J., "Development of mechanical properties during secondary aging in aluminum alloys", Materials Science and Technology, 21 (9), 1025–1032, 2005.
	2.	Lumley, R.N., Polmear, I.J. & Morton, A.J., "Development of properties during secondary ageing of aluminium alloys", Materials Science Forum, 426-432, 303-308 (invited paper), 2003.
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