Professional Experience

• Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW 2008-
• Visiting Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France 2008-
• Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals 2005-
• Associate Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW 2004-07
• EPSRC Senior Fellow, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK 2004
• Visiting Fellow, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK 2002
• Senior Lecturer, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW 2000-03
• Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Wollongong 1996-99
• EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Materials, University of Manchester 1994-96
• Materials Engineer, Alcan Australia Limited 1989-94

Research Interests

My research interests are concerned mainly with the mechanisms of microstructure and texture evolution during solidification, solid-state phase transformation and deformation & annealing with particular emphasis on the light metals and their composites. Current researches include:

• Development of new classes of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)
• Processing and properties of BMGs and their composites
• Thermoplastic macro- and micro-forming of BMGs
• Production and properties of biocompatible BMG components
• Recovery/recrystallization mechanisms in deformed single-phase and two-phase alloys
• Design of multilayered hybrid sheet structures for optimising mechanical properties
• Development of microstructure and texture in materials by thin-strip casting

Teaching Contributions

Courses taught are in the areas of: Physical Properties of Materials; Thermodynamics & Phase Equilibria; Crystallography; X-ray Diffraction; Dislocation Theory; Physical Metallurgy; Phase Transformations, and Thermomechanical Processing.

Awards & Memberships

• 2007 – Fellow of Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust)
• 2006 – Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)
• 2002 – UNSW European Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK
• 1996 – Chartered Engineer (UK) (CEng)
• 1996 – Chartered Professional Engineer (Australia) (CPEng)
• 1996 – Member of Institute of Materials Engineering, Australia (IMEA)
• 1996 – Member of Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, USA (TMS)

Research Funding

Over the past ten years, extensive research funding has been received from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other sources. Funding has been received for thermomechanical processing equipment together with a wide range of SEM/TEM/XRD/EBSD facilities for the advanced microstructural and crystallographic analysis of materials.

Some Recent Individual ARC Grants (exc. CoE Projects)

• ARC Discovery – Development of ductile bulk metallic glasses (2012-2014)
• ARC Discovery – 3D-EBSD of materials (2009-2011)
• ARC Discovery – 3D-EBSD of materials (2005-2007)
• ARC Discovery – Thermal stability of submicron alloys (2003-2005)
• ARC Discovery – Texture enhancement in as-cast metallic strip (2002-2004)
• ARC Linkage – Grain boundary structure of nanocrystalline alloys, with Prof. Cairney (USyd) (2012-2014)
• ARC Linkage – Development of die castable bulk metallic glasses, with Dr Laws (2012-2014)
• ARC Linkage (International) – High resolution EBSD of fine grained alloys (2004-2005)
• ARC Linkage – Silicon on sapphire using solid-phase epitaxial techniques (2003-2005)
• ARC Linkage – Optimisation of formability in strip-cast low carbon steel (2002-2004)

Current & Recent Researchers

Key Researchers & Visiting Academics

• Dr Kevin Laws (2007 – present) (DECRA Fellow) – Processing and properties of Ti-base BMGs
• Dr Philip Boughton (2009 – present) – Biocompatible BMGs and their applications
• Dr Martin Xu (Postdoctoral Fellow) (2005 – present) – 3D-EBSD, strip casting and thermoplastic forming of BMGs
• Dr Md. Zakaria Quadir (2006 – present) – Deformation behaviour in alloys
• A/Prof. Delphine Retraint (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) (2010 – 11) – Light alloys research
• A/Prof. Lori Bassman (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) (2006 – present) – Light alloys research

Research Students

• Karl Shamlaye (PhD) – Processing and properties of BMG composite sheets
• John Scicluna (PhD, UNSW/INPG) – Ductile BMGs and their composites (jointly supervised by Prof. Yavari, INPG)
• Michael La Robina (PhD) – High temperature materials
• Yi Cao (PhD) – Direct casting of BMG sheets and further processing strategies
• Fitri Wahid (PhD) – Production and properties of Al-based BMGs
• Olga Beletska (PhD) – BMGs for ballistic armour applications
• Lalu Robin (PhD) – Deformation of Mg-base BMG composites
• Afrin Nassima (PhD) – 3D-EBSD on crystalline and semi-crystalline materials

Some Recent Research Students

• Gregory Guo (PhD) – Processing and properties of multifunctional Ti-Nb-O alloys
• Jake Cao (PhD) – Processing and properties of biocompatible metallic glasses
• Oday Al-Buhamad (PhD) – Microstructure and properties of multilayered Al alloys
• Kai Dick Lau (MSc) – Accumulative roll bonding of Al alloys
• Khalid Hamady (MBiomedE) – Development of biocompatible BMGs
• Bulent Gun (PhD) – Deformation and crystallization behaviour of amorphous Mg alloys
• Nora Mateescu (PhD) – 3D tomography of recrystallizing grains in metals
• Kevin Laws (PhD) – Low pressure die casting and properties of Mg- and Ca-base BMGs
• Aravinda Bommareddy (MSc) – Dynamic grain stability in SMG Al-Sc alloys
• Hamid Mohseni (MSc) – Microstructure and properties of Al-base nanocomposites
• Martin Xu (PhD) – Optimisation of microstructure and texture in strip cast steels

Publications

About 200 journal and conference papers, book chapters and books.

Some Recent Publications

1. M. Ferry, Direct Strip Casting of Metals and Alloys, Published by Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK & CRC Press LLC, New York, USA (2006), (275pp) ISBN 1 84569 049 4

2. M. Ferry, Chapter 6 of 10 – “Discontinuously reinforced metal matrix composites” in Deformation and Processing of Structural Materials Ed. X. Guo, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK & CRC Press LLC, New York, USA. pp. 203-251 (2005)

3. Quadir, M.Z., Ferry, M., Al-Buhamad, O. and Bassman, L. (2009). Randomization of recrystallization textures in Al layers by intense shearing in a layered ARB sheet of Al and Al(0.3%Sc). Acta Materialia, 57, pp. 29-40.

4. Laws, K.J., Gun. B. and Ferry, M. (2009). Influence of casting parameters on the critical casting size of bulk metallic glass. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 40A, pp. 2377-2387.

5. Laws, K.J., Shamlaye, K., Gun, B. and Ferry, M. (2009). Synthesis of copper-based bulk metallic glasses in the ternary Cu-Mg-Ca system. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 486, pp. L27-L29.

6. Burgess, T, Ferry, M. and Laws, K.J. (2008). Effect of loading rate on the serrated flow of a bulk metallic glass during nanoindentation. Acta Materialia, 56, pp. 4829-4835.

7. Laws, K.J., Gun. B. and Ferry, M. (2008). Large-scale production of Ca-base bulk metallic glass samples by low pressure die casting. Materials Science & Engineering A, 475, pp. 348-354.

8. Xu, W., Ferry, M., Cairney, J.M. and Humphreys, F.J. (2007). Three dimensional investigation of particle stimulated nucleation in a nickel alloy. Acta Materialia, 55, pp. 5157-5167.

9. Quadir, M.Z., Al-Buhamad, O., Bassman, L. and Ferry, M. (2007). Development of recovered/recrystallized microstructure in Al alloys by accumulative roll bonding. Acta Materialia, 55, pp. 5438-5448.

10. Gun. B., Laws, K.J. and Ferry, M. (2007). Elevated temperature flow behaviour in an Mg-base bulk metallic glass. Materials Science & Engineering A, 471, pp. 130-134.

11. M. Ferry and N. Burhan, Structural and kinetic aspects of grain coarsening in submicron Al alloys, Acta Materialia, vol. 55 (2007)

12. M. Ferry, Influence of fine particles on grain coarsening within an orientation gradient, Acta Materialia, vol. 53, pp. 773-873 (2005)

13. M. Ferry, N.E. Hamilton and F.J. Humphreys, Continuous and discontinuous grain coarsening in a fine grained particle-containing Al-Sc alloy, Acta Materialia, vol. 53, pp. 1097-1109 (2005)

14. N. Stanford, D.P. Dunne and M. Ferry, Deformation and annealing of {110}<011> aluminium single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 51, 665 (2003)

15. A. Hunter and M. Ferry, Texture enhancement by inoculation during direct casting of stainless steel strip, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A, vol. 33A, 1499 (2002)

16. Y. Huang, F.J. Humphreys and M. Ferry, The annealing behaviour of deformed cube-oriented aluminium single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 48, 2543 (2000)

17. M. Ferry and F.J. Humphreys, Deformation and recrystallization of particle-containing {110}<001> single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 44, 3089 (1996)

18. M. Ferry and F.J. Humphreys, Discontinuous subgrain growth in aluminium single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 44, 1289 (1996)

19. F.J. Humphreys and M. Ferry, On the role of twinning in the recrystallization of aluminium, Scripta Materialia, vol. 35, 99 (1996)

20. P. Manohar, M. Ferry and T. Chandra, Review – Five decades of the Zener equation, ISIJ International, vol. 38, 913 (1998)