Reed has held academic positions at
Imperial College London, the
University of Cambridge, the
University of British Columbia (UBC), where he held a
Canada Research Chair. During the period 2006 to 2012 he worked in the Dept of Metallurgy and Materials at the
University of Birmingham, where he acted as Director of Research. He moved to
Oxford in 2013. Reed's research is focused on high temperature materials and
nickel-based
superalloys for use in
jet engines and for
generating power. Reed has also researched
deformation mechanisms in single crystal superalloys under various
mechanical fatigue conditions;
phase transitions and
oxidation reactions; as well as quantitatively studying
process modelling for
welding and
forging.
Awards and honours Reed was elected a
Fellow of the
Institute of Materials in 2005, a Fellow of
ASM International in 2001, and Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2017. ==References==