After studying for a degree in Metallurgy at the University of Manchester, Andy went on to gain an MSc and PhD taking calorimetric study and thermodynamic assessment of the Ni-V system as topics for his thesis. Following a brief spell in the flame-spraying industry, Andy went on to the University of Sheffield continuing experimental and computational thermodynamics studies on a variety of material types … from metallic systems, through semiconductor systems on to a high-temperature oxide superconductors.
Andy then went on to the University of Leeds looking at steels and Tungsten alloys, but additionally became heavily involved in COST Actions 531 and MP0602 on lead-free solders, which resulted in the creation of dedicated self-consistent thermodynamic databases for lead-free solders and the publication of Atlases of calculated phase diagrams. He also acted as Vice Chair of the management of both Actions.
Now associated with Hampton Thermodynamics, Andy works as a consultant in Computational Thermodynamics and is closely associated with SGTE (Scientific Group Thermodata Europe) where he manages the solution database and is co-writing an online tutorial on thermodynamics.
Andy has been working as a member of the MSIT (Materials Science International Team) for more than 30 years and has recently been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of MSI Eureka, a ‘dynamic virtual knowledge based of critically evaluated phase constitution of inorganic materials’. He is also lead organiser of the MSIT Winter School on Materials Chemistry.
An associate editor for the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Calphad Journal and the Journal of Mining and Metallurgy, Andy was Chair of the Materials Chemistry Committee of the IOM3 before restructuring of the Institute in 2022.