Dr Simon Gray is a Technology Platform Lead for Materials Performance in Extreme Environments at the University of Cranfield.
Simon is a Principal Fellow in the Department of Manufacturing and Materials at Cranfield University. He graduated in Materials Engineering (MEng, 1996) from the University of Birmingham in the UK and subsequently obtained his PhD in 2000 from the same institution, looking at developing coatings for TiAl alloys.
Until joining Cranfield in 2006, he remained at Birmingham, focusing on the performance of materials and coating systems, in particularly oxidation and creep. At Cranfield University, he initially focused on coating deposition including CVD and thermal spraying, and the oxidation and corrosion performance of these systems.
During this time, he became more focused on the performance evaluation of materials at elevated temperature, and is now running a world-leading test laboratory looking at high-temperature accelerated oxidation, corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking, and corrosion-fatigue performance of materials systems in aggressive environments (including hydrogen). The equipment has been designed to facilitate ‘real-world’ needs, and provides critical performance data to enable significant improvements in “lifing” data.
