Joy Sumner

Biography

Dr Joy Sumner gained her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Cambridge. She matriculated in 2000 and spent the 2002/3 academic year at MIT in the USA as a member of the CMI exchange programme. She graduated after studying Physical Sciences (with a focus on materials science) in 2004. For her PhD, she assessed the use of several scanning probe microscopy techniques for the characterisation of gallium nitride semiconductors, also at the University of Cambridge. Since then she has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bath before taking up a research fellowship, and later academic fellowship, at Cranfield University, where she works on understanding and testing materials' corrosion performance. Joy is a member of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Research Interest

Joy's main focus is the high temperature behaviour of Ni-base alloys in different corrosive and oxidative environments and the effects of thermal barrier and the effects of corrosion resistant coatings.