Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced the appointment of Professor Harry Bhadeshia, Dr John Francis and Dr Andy Howe as co-Editors of Materials Science and Technology (MST), the flagship journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).
Harry Bhadeshia is internationally recognised for his research on phase transformations in steel. In addition to advancing fundamental understanding, this work has underpinned the development of tough, wear-resistant bainitic rail steels used in the Channel Tunnel, and high-performance armour steel used by the British Ministry of Defence. He is currently Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy and Director of the SKF Steel Technology Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor of Computational Metallurgy at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, POSTECH, Korea.
John Francis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, UK, and is also associated with the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at Manchester. Following involvement in a wide range of research at CSIRO, Australia, he has become established as an authority on the materials science and technology of welding, and in particular the measurement, modelling and mitigation of residual stresses.
Andy Howe, formerly Principal Scientist at Tata Steel's Swinden Technology Centre, Rotherham, is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK, and an Associate Consultant for Beta Technology. He has very broad experience in fundamental metallurgy and the science and technology aspects of the process route from steelmaking, through casting and thermomechanical processing, to applications.
The Editors' plans for the journal, laid out in their first editorial, include reduced refereeing and publication times, regular commissioned thematic issues and the commissioning of short critical assessments, a new type of article designed to frame the research agenda in topics of current interest.
This new editorial team takes over from Professor J F Knott OBE, University of Birmingham, UK, who is standing down as Editor after twelve years. John's last issue features his editorial, 'Exit – with trombones' which lays out future plans for both the journal and him. The issue will be available online at the end of October 2014. This issue also marks the retirement of long-standing associate editors, Professors Andy Horsewell, Devesh Misra, Philippa Reed and Philip Withers.
Materials Science and Technology is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed research on fundamental and technological aspects of materials science and engineering. The journal has a particular interest in research on the relationships between materials processing, structure (from the nano- to the macro-scale) and properties, including characterisation and the control and prediction of relevant service properties. The journal is indexed by Scopus, the Science Citation Index and the Materials Science Citation Index, among other services.
