Mark Rainforth

Professor Mark Rainforth, FREng is POSCO Professor of Steel and former Head of the Materials Department at the University of Sheffield. He is currently Sheffield PI on the Future Steel Manufacturing Hub, SUSTAIN (£10.6m). Winner of the IOM3 Rosenhain and Verulam Medals and past President, Royal Microscopical Society, he is an elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering. He is recognised for his work on the processing and characterisation of metal alloys. He has worked on steels for the last 40 years, including publishing papers on steel in Nature and Science. He has published ~400 refereed scientific papers, attracting over 900 citations per year.