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Mary Ryan
CBE FREng
Ryan speaks at the World Economic Forum in 2016
Born
Mary Patricia Ryan
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Known forNanoscience
Corrosion
Scientific career
InstitutionsImperial College London
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Doctoral studentsEleanor Schofield[1]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/m.p.ryan

Mary Patricia Ryan CBE FREng is a Professor of Materials Science at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Education

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Ryan completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester.[2] Her PhD was on using "in-situ ECSTM to study the formation of ultra-thin surface oxides on base metals", and she managed to show for the first time that these surface oxides have crystalline phases.[3][4] She spent three years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, where she developed in situ electrochemical systems using synchrotron radiation-based techniques.[3][5]

Career and research

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Ryan is an expert in electrochemistry and interfacial material science.[6] Ryan joined Imperial College London as a lecturer in 1998.[2] Her research group explore the mechanism of corrosion, new protective materials and materials with thermal management capabilities.[2] She studies the process of electrochemical deposition, the stabilities of metals and the formation processes of metal and oxide nanostructures.[7] She pioneered the use of synchrotron X-rays to study reactive electrochemical systems, including the stability of nanostructures.[8]

In 2002, she published the seminal paper "Why stainless steel corrodes" in Nature.[9]

In 2012, she joined Amy Cruickshank to advise on how to preserve the Dornier Do 17 ('The Flying Pencil'), which was discovered in Goodwin Sands.[10] She also contributed to the 2016 World Economic Forum, where she discussed how nano-composite materials could use heat from a vehicle's engine to power air conditioning.[11]

Her recent work focusses on how nanomaterials interact with biological systems, including the toxicity of nanoparticles and development of plasmonic materials for biosensing.[12] She works with the heritage sector to develop new materials and conservation techniques.[12] She has worked with the Science Museum, the Royal Air Force Museum London and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[13] She collaborates extensively with Dr Eleanor Schofield, Head of Conservation and Collections Care at the Mary Rose Trust.[12][14][15]

In 2017, she was appointed Vice Dean of Research for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London.[16] She is the Director of the Imperial-Shell University Technology Centre in Advanced Interfacial Materials Science.[17] Ryan is a member of the London Centre for Nanotechnology.[18] She is an editor for Nature's Materials Degradation Journal.[8]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2015.[6] She is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Network of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.[19] She is a Trustee of the Heritage science forum.[20]

Ryan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to education and materials science and engineering.[21]

References

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  1. ^ Schofield, Eleanor Josephine (2006). Formation and characterisation of nanoporous materials. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London (University of London). OCLC 500283573. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.429052. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Prof Mary Ryan - Imperial Tech Foresight". www.imperialtechforesight.com. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Invited Speakers". RAMS 2015. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Mary Ryan". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  5. ^ Ryan, M. P.; Laycock, N. J.; Isaacs, H. S.; Newman, R. C. (1 January 1999). "Corrosion Pits in Thin Films of Stainless Steel". Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 146 (1): 91–97. Bibcode:1999JElS..146...91R. doi:10.1149/1.1391569. ISSN 0013-4651.
  6. ^ a b "New Fellows - Mary Ryan". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Annual Invited Lectures | Icon". icon.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  8. ^ a b "About the Editors | npj Materials Degradation". www.nature.com. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  9. ^ Ryan, Mary P.; Williams, David E.; Chater, Richard J.; Hutton, Bernie M.; McPhail, David S. (2002). "Why stainless steel corrodes". Nature. 415 (6873): 770–774. Bibcode:2002Natur.415..770R. doi:10.1038/415770a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 11845203. S2CID 4335851.
  10. ^ "Big Ask | Mary Ryan tries to save the last Flying Pencil". www.labnews.co.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  11. ^ World Economic Forum (19 February 2016), Holistic heat management | Mary Ryan, retrieved 7 April 2018
  12. ^ a b c "Research - Professor Mary Ryan". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  13. ^ "Icon Heritage Science Group: Annual Invited Lecture by Prof Mary Ryan". icon.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  14. ^ "Lab Profile: Dr Eleanor Schofield - Materials Today". Materials Today. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  15. ^ "Conserving Britain's most precious antique ship | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  16. ^ "VICE-DEANS, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING" (PDF). Imperial College London. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  17. ^ "Shell-Imperial Advanced Interfacial Materials Science (AIMS) Centre". Imperial College London. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  18. ^ "Mary Ryan | London Centre for Nanotechnology". www.london-nano.com. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  19. ^ "People - EPSRC website". epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  20. ^ "Trustees | National Heritage Science Forum". www.heritagescienceforum.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  21. ^ "No. 63714". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 2022. p. B10.
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