Research Staff
	Dr. Nicole Stanford
		•	B.E. (Hons) University of Wollongong
		•	Ph.D. University of Wollongong
	Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation
		Deakin University, Pigdons Rd, Geelong, VIC, 3217 Phone: +61 (3) 5227 2169 Fax: +61 (3) 5227 1103 Email: stanford@deakin.edu.au
	Research interests
	Dr. Stanford has two main areas of research interest: i) magnesium alloy development, and ii) strip casting technology. Dr. Stanford has a particular enthusiasm for developing unique thermo-mechanical processes that optimise alloy performance.
	Selected publications
	1.	N. Stanford & M. Ferry, "Observations using Atomic Force Microscopy of Surface-Relief Associated with Deformation in Cube-Oriented Single Crystals", Scripta Materialia, Vol.44, no. 6, pp. 941-946 (2000).
	2.	N. Stanford, D. Dunne & M. Ferry, "Deformation and Annealing of [011](011) Oriented Al Single Crystals", Acta Materialia, Vol.51, no. 3, pp. 665-676 (2003).
	3.	N. Stanford, D. Dunne & M. Ferry, "Effect of Microstructural Stability on Recrystallisation Textures in Deformed Al Single Crystals", Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol.348, no. 1-2, pp. 154-162 (2003).
	4.	N. Stanford, A. Djakovic, B. Shollock, M. McLean, N. D'Souza & P.A. Jennings, "Seeding of single crystal superalloys-role of seed melt-back on casting defects", Scripta Materialia, Vol.50, no. 1, pp. 159-163 (2004).
	5.	N. Stanford & P.S. Bate, "Crystallographic variant selection in Ti-6Al-4V", Acta Materialia, Vol.52, no. 17, pp. 5215-5224 (2004).
	6.	N. Stanford & P.S. Bate, "Crystallographic variant selection in α-β brass", Acta Materialia, Vol.53, no. 3, pp. 859-867 (2005).
	7.	D. Phelan, N. Stanford & R. Dippenaar, "In-situ observations of Widmanstätten ferrite formation in a low carbon steel", Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol.A 407, pp. 127-134 (2005).
	8.	N. Stanford & D. Dunne, "Martensitic surface relief in an Fe-Mn-Si-based alloy strained by bending”, Scripta Materialia, Vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 739-744 (2005).
	9.	N. Stanford & D.P. Dunne, "Effect of thermo-mechanical processing on the shape memory effect in an iron-based alloy”, Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol.A 422, pp. 352-359 (2006).
	10.	N. Stanford, D.P. Dunne & B.J. Monaghan, "Austenite stability in Fe-Mn-Si-based shape memory alloys", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol.430, pp. 107-115 (2007).