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Personal Statement
I am Director of Knowledge Exchange located within the DMEM Department, University of Strathclyde. I am Chair of the Technical Board of the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC). The Technical Board is responsible for the definition and governance of the £1.8m pa core research programme. I am also Principal Investigator for a range of CR&D projects collectively worth about £3m. My background consists of a mixture of industrial and commercial research with particular areas of expertise around metallurgy and manufacturing.
I have worked in both industrial (Doncasters Forgemasters, Mettis Aerospace) and commercial (QinetiQ) research as well as previously spending time in academia at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in High Performance Materials at the University of Birmingham. I joined the University of Strathclyde in 2010.
My research interests focus on the interaction of materials processing conditions, microstructure and final properties. To support this I am a specialist in materials characterisation and work extensively with process modelling. I have many years of experience in working with titanium and nickel based alloys in particular. My PhD was on the mechanisms of superplasticity in aluminium alloy and I have retained an active involvement in the technology / science of superplasticity having run several major CR&D projects on the high temperature forming of titanium.
For three years I was the Engineering Director of the AFRC and played a major role in building and leading the (then) 80 strong research and engineering team.
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford
2005 → 2008
Award Date: 30 Jul 2008
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
1991 → 1996
Award Date: 1 Jun 1996
Bachelor of Science, University of Wolverhampton
1981 → 1985
Award Date: 28 Jun 1985
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Strathclyde CDT in Lightweighting and Design in Advanced Materials
Blackwell, P., Ion, W. & Evans, D.
1/01/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Internally funded project
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Multiple degrees of freedom active motion control of a hydraulically actuated crane
Balan, M., Majecki, P., Grimble, M. & Blackwell, P., 15 Feb 2022, OCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto. Piscataway, N.J., p. 1-6 6 p. (Oceans Conference Record (IEEE); vol. 2021-September).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book
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A new route for developing ultrafine-grained Al alloy strips using repetitive bending under tension
Tamimi, S., Sivaswamy, G., Pirgazi, H., Amirkhiz, B. S., Moturu, S., Siddiq, M. A., Kockelmann, W. & Blackwell, P., 31 Aug 2021, In: Materials & Design. 206, 18 p., 109750.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining
Blackwell, Paul (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
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Materials Letters (Journal)
Paul Blackwell (Peer reviewer)
9 May 2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal peer review
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Journal of Materials Processing Technology (Journal)
Paul Blackwell (Peer reviewer)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal peer review
Impacts
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Manufacture and application of ultrafine grained metals
Andrzej Rosochowski (Participant), Malgorzata Rosochowska (Participant), Lech Olejnik (Participant), Paul Wood (Participant), Paul Blackwell (Participant), Evgenia Yakushina (Participant), Muhammad Jawad Qarni (Participant) & Michal Gzyl (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Economic and commerce