Dr Robert (rob) Mcintyre
Non-Executive Director
Business
Dyesol Limited
Australia
Biography
Dr McIntyre has a Ph.D in Fundamental Surface Electrochemistry which he obtained from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He was then awarded a Max Planck Fellowship to Study under Professor Heinz Gerischer, Director of the Fritz-Haber Institute. He worked there as a group leader for 5 years on fundamental surface chemistry of semi-conductors and metals and for that work he was awarded the Tajima Prize for Electrochemistry, awarded annually by the International Society of Electrochemistry. He has since held management positions at Courtaulds Chemicals, now AKZO, ICI, Tioxide, now Huntsman, and most recently, Cristal Global, formerly Millennium Chemicals. Dr McIntyre has been a Director of Stainless Steel International (UK), Millennium Chemicals (UK), Cristal UK, and many other Cristal companies for the past 10 years. He has a wide range of publications and patents and in the last 15 years has directed teams which have been responsible for the scale-up of many of Cristal’s major pigments and specialty products
Research Interest
semi-conductors and metals
