Dr. Russell Goodall

Prof. Russell Goodall is a metallurgist with extensive experience in the science of porous metals and the development of novel alloys of many types. He has worked for over 15 years on the processing and thermal and mechanical characterization of a range of new materials. He joined the department in 2008 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained his MEng degree from Oxford University and his PhD from the University of Cambridge before carrying out postdoctoral research at EPFL. After this, he returned to the UK as a lecturer at Sheffield, where he is now Professor of Metallurgy. In 2019, Russell received the Sir Colin Humphreys Education Award from the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IoM3). His main research interests are in the development of new alloys, in particular, high-entropy alloys and alloys with silver, brazing filler metals, the processing, properties, applications of open-celled porous metals, and the mechanical properties of materials in general.