Robert G. Kelly

About

Robert G. Kelly has been conducting research on the corrosion of metals for the past 30 years. After completing his Ph.D. studies at Johns Hopkins University (1989), he spent two years at the Corrosion and Protection Centre at the University of Manchester (UK) as a Fulbright Scholar and as an NSF/NATO Post-doctoral Fellow. He joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1990. His past work has included work on the corrosion of metals and alloys in marine environments, non-aqueous and mixed solvents as well as stress-corrosion cracking and other forms of localized corrosion. His present work includes studies of the electrochemical and chemical conditions inside localized corrosion sites in various alloy systems, corrosion in aging aircraft, development of embeddable corrosion microinstruments, microfabrication methods to probe the fundamentals of localized corrosion, and multi-scale modeling of corrosion processes. He has co-authored over one hundred papers, presented fifty invited talks and is the Co-Director of the Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering at UVA. He was selected as the recipient of the 1997 A. B. Campbell Award for the best paper by an author 35 years old or younger and the 1999 H. H. Uhlig Award for young corrosion educators and the Willis R. Whitney Award from the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (now AMPP), and both the H.H. Uhlig Award and the Henry B. Linford Award from the Electrochemical Society. He is also a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and AMPP. He has won several teaching awards while at UVA, including an All University Teaching Award in 2004 and the Hartfield Excellence in Teaching Award. He has rendered technical assistance to the NRC and DOE concerning the Yucca Mountain Project, the USAF Aging Aircraft Program, the NASA Safety and Engineering Center, and the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial design team as well as numerous other government agencies and companies. He has supervised over 30 Ph.D. students to completion as well as 18 M.S. students.

Education

B.E.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1984

M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1986

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1989

Post-Doc ​University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1988-90