J.A. Szpunar received his
PhD and DSc. degrees from Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow. He joined the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in August 2009, as
Tier I Canada Research Chair.
He came from McGill University
where he was Professor of Materials Science and Birks Chair in Metallurgy. His
research interests extend to various areas of materials related investigations.
In particular he has longstanding interests in deformation and
recrystallization processes in metals; in structure and properties of thin
films; in electronic interconnects; in high temperature oxidation and
corrosion; in synergy of wear, erosion and corrosion; in the applications of X-ray and neutron diffraction
techniques to structure of grain boundaries and other interfaces; in hydrogen
generation and storage: in intergranular fractures; processing pipeline steels;
failure of industrial materials and special properties of nanocrystalline
metals. During last 10 years, Professor Szpunar research
is focused on nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel cladding. He is working mainly on Accident Tolerant
Fuel processing and simulation of properties and performance at high
temperatures. More recently, his team study problems related to materials and
fuels for SMR.
He was a leader of 49 major
research projects – mostly materials related investigations. The results of his
research are presented in more than 950 research papers including more than 600
journal publications.
http://homepage.usask.ca/~jes272/AMRE/
