Other names Harry Bhadeshia | Name Harshad Bhadeshia Residence United Kingdom | |
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Books Bainite in Steels, Worked Examples in the Geometry of Crystals Alma mater London Guildhall University, University of Cambridge | ||
Institution University of Cambridge | ||
Sir Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia, (born 1953) FRS, FREng, FNAE is a British metallurgist and TATA Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
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Education and early life
Born in Kenya to Indian parents, Harry Bhadeshia moved to the United Kingdom in the 70s and studied at the City of London Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1976. He joined the University of Cambridge to work on the theory and significance of retained austenite in steels and obtained his PhD in 1980.
Career and research
Following his PhD, he worked as a Science Research Council Research Fellow until 1981 and has been part of the academic staff at the University of Cambridge since then. He is the author of more than 650 published papers in the field of metallurgy and several books.
In the 90s, he worked with British Steel plc (now part of Tata Steel Europe) on a carbide-free, silicon-rich bainitic steel that was used for rails in the Channel Tunnel and later on a high-performance armour steel for the British Ministry of Defence. In 2006, he was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for "outstanding services to the Steel Industry". In November 2008, he became the first Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy and he established and took the lead of the new "SKF University Technology Centre", in May 2009 between SKF and the University of Cambridge to conduct research in the field of the physical metallurgy of bearing steels.