Professor Marco J Starink PhD
Emeritus Professor
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Professor Marco J Starink is Professor of Materials Engineering within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Marco Starink is involved in various mostly industry co-funded projects on processing-microstructure-property relations of a range of materials. He has published over 200 papers on his work including the theory of phase transformations, materials nanostructure, dislocation theory, strength models, calorimetry, superalloys, Al-based alloys, severe plastic deformation and composites (for more information visit
Professor Starink's Mendeley page
); and is in the ISI-ESI database of the world's most cited researchers.
His work on kinetics of phase transformation during heating is recognized as amongst most influential work in the field this century. The work (visit the
abstract on eprints
) allows the effective determination of the activation energy of reactions in materials at an accuracy that is better than other methods with similar computing effort. The work has seen application in work ranging from stability of drugs to hardening reactions in metallic alloys and from thermal stability of composites to explosives.
Work (visit the
abstract on eprints
) on the strengthening of metallic alloys by clusters of atoms that are between 2 atoms (about 0.3 nanometer apart) to only a few nanometers in size has allowed modelling and prediction of the strengthening of a range of widely used alloys.
Marco graduated in Physics at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1987; and obtained a PhD in Materials Science from Delft University of Technology in 1992. Marco joined the University of Southampton in 1998. External appointments include Editor of Materials Science and Engineering A and membership of the editorial board of Thermochimica Acta, membership of the EPSRC's Structural Materials Peer Review College and specialist assessor for EU Framework programmes.