Group of titanium technologies scientists

Titanium technologies draws on the skills of a multi-disciplinary group of experts.

Titanium technologies: our people

CSIRO Titanium Technologies taps the skills of 80 specialised scientists and engineers, drawn from across CSIRO, to help build a cost-effective titanium industry.

  • 1 May 2012 | Updated 12 October 2012

The Titanium Technologies theme employs the skills of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, with expertise including:

  • additive manufacturing
  • electrochemistry
  • powder metallurgy 
  • metal fabrication technologies.

Read about key members of our team in the profiles below.

 

Mr John Barnes: creating advanced titanium fabrication technologies

Mr John Barnes leads a group of research teams focused on revolutionary additive manufacturing technologies which are expanding Australia's titanium processing industry.

Dr Kathie McGregor: investigating new technologies for electrolytic production of light metals

Dr Kathie McGregor is an electrochemist, who uses her specialised understanding of metal complex chemistry to develop improved industrial metal production processes.

Dr Mark Gibson: alloy development and microstructure manipulation

Dr Mark Gibson is a materials engineering working in the development of novel processes and materials.

Dr Sri Lathabai: leading research on nanostructured and ultrafine grained metallic materials

Dr Sri Lathabai is a materials engineer working on enhancing the performance of materials produced by a number of novel processes including electron beam-assisted additive manufacturing processes, severe plastic deformation processes and novel joining technologies.

Dr Christian Doblin

Dr Christian Doblin is an engineer working to scale up CSIRO's titanium metal production process, TiRO™, to demonstration plant status.