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Biography
Dr Andrew Breen is a senior postdoctoral fellow and deputy group leader of the Engineering Microstructures group within the Transport and Infrastructure theme of the School of Materials Science & Engineering. Andrew received his PhD from USyd in 2014 where he remained as an atom probe support engineer until 2016. He then undertook a Humboldt Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Germany) to directly observe hydrogen in...view more
Dr Andrew Breen is a senior postdoctoral fellow and deputy group leader of the Engineering Microstructures group within the Transport and Infrastructure theme of the School of Materials Science & Engineering. Andrew received his PhD from USyd in 2014 where he remained as an atom probe support engineer until 2016. He then undertook a Humboldt Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Germany) to directly observe hydrogen in metals. In 2019, he returned to USyd as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in an AUSMURI funded project focused on understanding structure-property-processing relationships of additively manufactured alloys. Andrew is a leading expert in microstructural characterisation, particularly advanced atom probe analysis techniques, and continues to hold a fractional appointment at USyd.
My Grants
2018: BigMax call for participation project grant, Max Planck Society (Germany) €176,800
My Qualifications
2009: Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours), The University of Sydney, Australia
2014: PhD Materials Science: Developing advanced atom probe tomography characterisation techniques for engineering materials, The University of Sydney, Australia
My Awards
2017: recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers for two years of research funding. Host institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Germany)
My Research Activities
atom probe tomography, data mining, crystallography, engineering alloys, microstructural characterisation
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Through supervision of research students I aim to improve capability in advanced microstructural characterisation of engineering materials to facilitate a better understand structure-property-processing relationships.This includes: developing sophisticated atom probe tomography analysis techniques, develop correlative microscopy and local mechanical property testing approaches, engineer unique microstructures using metal additive manufacturing technologies.