Professor Paul Withey BSc PhD FIMMM MInstP CEng

Professor Paul Withey

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Professor of Casting Technology

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 5174
Email
p.a.withey@bham.ac.uk

Paul Withey is Professor of Casting Technology.

Paul joined academia in 2018 and in 2019 was awarded an EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship. He is working with industry to deliver improved casting technology for a number of different applications.

Paul is also knowledgeable about the DeHavilland Comet investigation in the 1950s and has shared his enthusiasm both in talks and documentaries.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Metallurgy and Materials University 麻豆精选, 1989
  • BSc in Physics, University 麻豆精选, 1986

Biography

Paul Withey qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University 麻豆精选 in 1986. He went on to study for a PhD in magnetic materials in the School of Metallurgy and Materials in 1989.

Following a period in academia where Paul moved into the casting field, he moved to Rolls-Royce in 1994 initially in the research foundry in Bristol and latterly based in the production facility in Derby.

Paul worked on both production methods, yield improvement and new technology and in 2005 he became the Associate Fellow in Casting Technology.

In 2018 Paul returned to Birmingham to continue his academic career, focussing on casting technology.

Teaching

Module lead for High Performance Materials and Advanced Manufacture.

Research

  • Single Crystal Casting
  • Grain defects in single crystal castings
  • Furnace technology

Other activities

Member of the IOM3 Advisory Board and Nominations Committee

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Harrison, J & Withey, PA 2023, '', Crystals, vol. 13, no. 3, 519.

Park, K & Withey, P 2022, '', Crystals, vol. 12, no. 2, 299.

Park, K & Withey, P 2021, '', Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 23, no. 9, 2100302.

Park, K & Withey, P 2021, '', Crystals, vol. 11, no. 10, 1201.

Lin, B, Liu, R, Jia, Q, Cui, Y, Withey, PA & Yang, R 2018, '', Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 712, pp. 73-79.

Park, K & Withey, P 2018, '', Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 20, no. 7, 1700987.

Kim, K & Withey, P 2017, '', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 2932-2942.

Kim, K & Withey, P 2017, '', Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 19, no. 6, 1700041.

Kim, K & Withey, P 2016, '', MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 1698-1706.

Kim, KH, Withey, P & Griffiths, WD 2015, '', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1024-1029.

Yuan, C, Cheng, X & Withey, P 2015, '', Materials Chemistry and Physics, vol. 155, pp. 205-210.

Yuan, C, Cheng, X, Holt, G, Shevchenko, D & Withey, P 2015, '', Ceramics International, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 4129-4139.

Withey, P & Turner, S 2015, '', Educational Review, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 23-34.

Cheng, X, Yuan, C, Blackburn, S & Withey, P 2015, '', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1328-1336.

Comment/debate

Kim, K & Withey, P 2017, '', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 5160-5163.