Our team
Leadership team
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Mark Buntine
Tejas Bhatelia
Decarbonisation | Process Intensification | Hydrodynamics
Kod Pojtanabuntoeng
Internal / External Pipeline Corrosion | Corrosion Under Insulation | Top-of-the-Line
Varun Ghodkay
Sam Bakhtiari
Multiscale Modelling | Density Functional Theory | Solid-state Phase Transformation
Ibukun Oluwoye
Silvia Salgar-Chaparro
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion | Molecular Biology | Microbial Ecology
Nicholas Tan
Polymers | Corrosion Under Insulation | Thermal Insulating Coatings
Ammar Al Helal
High-pressure / High-temperature Testing | MEG Pilot Plant | Flow Assurance
Yurany Sanchez Torres
Electrochemical Analysis | Materials Degradation | Asset Integrity
Marisa Yookhong
Corrosion Testing | Wet Parking | Sample Preparation
Yousuf Abdulwahhab
Corrosion Resistant Alloys | High-temperature / High-pressure Testing | Localised corrosion
Farzaneh Farivar
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion | Concrete Corrosion | Analytical Chemistry
Arun Matthew
Heat Transfer | Multiphase Modelling | Computational Fluid Dynamics
Malwattage Chandramalika Rukmali Peiris
Electroanalytical Techniques | Atomic Force Microscopic Techniques | Surface Modifications
Peng Qin
Electrochemical Corrosion | Advanced Microstructural Characterisation
Naveed Hassan
Materials Characterisation | Thermal Characterisation | Energy Storage
Ruiliang Liu
Affiliates
Our Affiliated Scholars complement and expand our knowledge, bringing years of industry and academic experience.
Brian Kinsella
Electroanalytical Chemistry | Multiphase Technology | Internal Pipeline Corrosion
Andrew Lowe
Polymers | Thermal Insulation | Coatings
Edgar Cristian Hornus
Electrochemistry | Localised Corrosion | Iron Contamination
Bruce Hinton
Stress Corrosion Cracking | Corrosion Fatigue Racking | Hydrogen Embrittlement
Greg Moore
Applied Science | Water and Wastewater | Desalination
Rob Francis
Corrosion Science | Metallurgy | Atmospheric Corrosivity
Collaborators
Our national and international collaborators enrich the Centre, contributing world-class expertise in corrosion.
Maria Forsyth
Corrosion | Electromaterials | Batteries
Srdjan Nesic
Transport Phenomena | Electrochemistry | CO2 / H2S Corrosion Modelling
Roy Johnsen
Cathodic Protection | Coatings | Hydrogen
Moreica Pabbruwe
Biomedical | Biomaterials | Tissue Responses
Alan Kop
Biomedical | Biomaterials | Alloy Manufacturing
Afrooz Barnoush
Nano / Micro-scale Characterisation | Hydrogen Embrittlement | Environmental Fracture and Fatigue
Mariano A Kappes
Thiosulfate | Environmental Cracking | Hydrogen Embrittlement
Students
Lina Silva Bedoya
Deep-water MIC of steel and the influence of CP on calcareous deposits and microbial growth.
Giles Harrison
Cathodic protection applications in mining – preventing gold plating and other complications.
Basit Raza
Corrosion inhibition mechanisms and synergistic effects in mitigating CO2 corrosion of carbon steel.
Abraham Rojas
Bayesian networks to model the pit-to-crack transition in duplex stainless steels (Shell Alliance).
Janice Xin Yee
Coating degradation – QEERI-Curtin Alliance
María Diaz-Mateus
Microbiologically influenced corrosion in oil and gas production (QEERI-Curtin).
Saleh Alsaleh
High-temperature behaviour of organic coatings on insulated steel surfaces. Corrosion under insulation.
Mohammed Bassil Albahri
Mechanisms of MIC in oil production facilities by thermophilic microorganisms.
Antonina Puzyrova
Ahmed Abdulmutaali
Alex Kovacs
Hydrogen embrittlement behaviour of nickel-based alloys additively manufactured using powder based fusion methods.
Praveen Weerakkody
Understanding the effect of Ni on the surface film formation and trench / crack morphologies of high strength low alloy steels.
Ahmed Elsayed Reyad Mohamed
Pushing the boundaries of corrosion resistant alloys in seawater applications.
Shahid Mohamed Parapurath
Understanding the hydrogen embrittlement behaviour of welded high strength low alloy steels.
Ifham Rasool Peerzada
Investigating the degradation mechanism of polymer materials exposed to Supercritical CO2.