Professor Philippa A.S Reed MA, PhD, FIMMM, CEng, FHEA
Professor of Structural Materials, Head of Mechanical Engineering Department
Professor Philippa A.S. Reed is Professor of Structural Materials within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Philippa graduated with a BA (Hons) in Materials Science and Metallurgy from Cambridge University in 1985, where she also obtained her Ph.D. on brittle failure in nuclear pressure vessel steels sponsored by Rolls Royce and Associates. Subsequent post-doctoral research at Cambridge investigated fatigue failure of aerospace turbine disc materials and was supported by Rolls Royce and DRA Aerospace, Farnborough. She then spent six months at Oxford University as a SERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow before joining the Department of Engineering Materials in 1992 as a lecturer. She was elected to the Structural Materials Peer Review College of EPSRC in 1997, gaining CEng status in 1998, a Senior Lectureship in 1999, a Readership in 2002, Professorial status in 2006 and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in 2009. She is currently Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in the School of Engineering
BA, Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge, 1985
PhD, University of Cambridge, 1990
Postdoctoral research associate, University of Cambridge, 1988-1991
SERC Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 1991-1992
Lecturer in Engineering Materials, University of Southampton, 1992 -1999
Senior Lecturer in Engineering Materials, University of Southampton, 1999-2002
Reader in Engineering Materials, University of Southampton, 2002-2006
Professor in Structural Materials, University of Southampton, 2006 onwards
Head of Mechanical Engineering, University of Southampton, 2015 onwards