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Associate Professor Kevin James Laws is an academic in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He holds roles including Project Manager at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals and previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UNSW. His expertise centers on alloy design, particularly metallic glasses and their processing techniques such as die-casting and thermomechanical treatments. Laws has contributed to the development of amorphous alloys for structural and biomedical applications, including magnesium-based composites with enhanced thermal stability.
His research focuses on material properties such as corrosion resistance, mechanical behavior, and phase stability, supported by over $100k in research funding since 2008. He has co-supervised 10 honours and 6 PhD students, reflecting his commitment to training the next generation of materials scientists. Awards include the ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship and invited research positions at ETH Zurich and the US Air Force Research Laboratories.
- Research Highlights: Design of bulk metallic glasses, amorphous alloy matrix composites, and bioresorbable materials.
- Teaching: Coordinates Welding and Joining Processes, guest lectures in polymer engineering, and supervises honours/PhD theses.
Laws' work bridges fundamental materials science with industrial applications, emphasizing high-throughput methods and computational modeling to accelerate alloy discovery. His publications span over 60 journal articles, book chapters, and conference contributions, addressing topics from atomic-scale structure analysis to macro-scale material performance.
