
Professor Geoffrey Brooks
- School of Engineering (SoE)
- Swinburne Research Office
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering
- EN 707a Hawthorn campus
Biography
Professor Brooks is a Professor in the School of Engineering. Since completing his PhD in 1994, Professor Brooks has been an Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong (1993-2000), an Associate Professor at McMaster University (2000-2004), a Senior Princpal Research Scientist at CSIRO (2004-2006) and a Professor at Swinburne since 2006.
Since joining Swinburne, Professor Brooks has been the Associate Dean of Research, Head of Mathematics at Swinburne and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Future Manufacturing). He currenty co-ordinates research for Extra Terrestrial processing at the University and a Program Leader in the ARC Steel Innovation Hub. He has also been active in recent years working with Physicists on Dark Matter detection research. Professor Brooks has published over 250 papers on fundamental aspects of steelmaking, aluminium production and materials processing in general. He has won significant international awards from the TMS, AIST, ASM and IOM3 for his contribution to metallurgical processing. Professor Brooks is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK).
Research interests
Engineering mathematics; Steelmaking; Aluminium production; Magnesium production; Sustainable mineral/ metals; High temperature processes; Green processing; Extractive metallurgy
PhD candidate and honours supervision
Higher degrees by research
Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.
Fields of Research
- Materials Engineering - 401600
Awards
- 2018, International, Distinguished Lecture Award for Extraction and Processing, TMS
- 2015, International, METSOC Best Paper Award, The Metallurgical and Materials Society of CIM
- 2015, International, Marcus Grossman Award for Best Paper in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, American Society of Materials
- 2013, International, Science Award for Extraction and Processing Division, TMS
- 2013, International, Elliott Lectureship Award, Association of Iron and Steel Technology