Dr Carlos Caceres    Reader

	Biography

Dr Carlos Cáceres's research interests are in: Micromechanics of deformation and fracture of Mg and Al casting alloys, Pseudoelastic behaviour of Mg-Al alloys, Hardness behaviour of Mg-Al alloys, Strengthening effects in single crystals of Mg-Al and Mg-Zn, Hall-Petch effects in Mg-Zn alloys and Microstructure of Al-Cu-Si-Mg casting alloys (Alloy 320).

Dr Cáceres was born in the Patagonia, and he grew up in Uspallata, a small town in the Andes Mountains, mid west of Argentina. He worked as a Researcher at McMaster University, Canada, for several years in the 1980s after receiving his PhD from the University of Cordoba, Argentina, in 1980. He migrated to Australia in 1991.

His current research projects are in the fields of:

• Solid solution hardening and softening in Mg alloys
  
• The strength of high-pressure die cast AZ91 alloy
  
• Low strain behaviour of Mg alloys

• Reader in Casting Technology (Tenured), University of Queensland, current.
  
• Visiting Scholar, University of Windsor, Ont., 1998
  
• Visiting Scholar, University of British Columbia, BC, 1998
  
• University Research Fellow, University of Queensland, 1991-1994
  
• Research Associate, McMaster University, Ont., 1988-1991
  
• Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenured), University of Cordoba, 1984-1988
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Ont., 1980–1983

• Member of the International Committee to the International Conference on the Strength of Materials ICSMA
  
• Article (co-authored with A. Blake) featured as “Editor’s Choice” in physica status solidi, vol 194, 2002
  
• Best Article Award, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 1998
  
• Invited Lecture to the 2nd Aluminum Casting Technology Symposium (ASM 2002 Meeting), Columbus, Oh
  
• Invited Lecture to the International Metallographic Society (IMS-ASM) 1999 Meeting, Cincinnati, Oh.
  
• Best Research Paper Award, Argentine Society for Metals, 1988

• American Foundry Society (AFS)
  
• ASM International
  
• Institute of Materials Engineers Australasia (IMEA)

• Co-operative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing, CAST
  
• Grants from the Australian Research Council and the Australian Academy of Science

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	Keywords
	Energy: Metals/Alloys, Engineering: Materials, Engineering Properties, Science and Technology: Materials Sciences, Engineering: Materials Processing Engineering, Engineering: Materials Engineering, Science and Technology: Metallurgy, Engineering: Metallurgical Engineering, Energy: Materials, Physical Properties, Engineering: Materials Testing, Science and Technology: Mechanisms/Flow and Fracture, Science and Technology: Mechanical Properties, Materials, Engineering: Mechanical Engineering