Valerie Randle

Professor Valerie Randle is a materials engineer and professor at Swansea University specialising in electron backscatter diffraction, grain boundary engineering.^[1] She was Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998 and was awarded the Rosenhain Award by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.^[2] She has made significant contributions and publications in the field of grain boundary engineering. She has also published several books on the microstructure of materials.

Career

Valerie Randle entered Cardiff University at the age of 27 to study chemistry, she found that the metallurgy module sparked her interest in materials. She is now a professor working within the field of microstructure of materials at Swansea University.

Publications

• Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture and Orientation Mapping

• The Measurement of Grain Boundary Geometry (Microscopy in Materials Science)

• Microtexture Determination and its Applications ISBN 978-1902653839

References

1. Swansea University
2. Shellie Nazarenus, Noted Scientist Shares Expertise, Calit2, University of California Irvine, November 13, 2008