Valerie Randle
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Professor Valerie Randle (Valerie Norris) | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 71–72) |
| Occupation | Scientist, educator |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Cardiff University |
| Genre | Academic and Fiction |
| Subject | Material Science and Engineering |
| Notable awards | Rosenhain Medal, Welsh Woman of the Year 1998 |
| Spouse | Professor Christopher Norris |
| Website | |
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Valerie Randle is a materials engineer who specialised in electron backscatter diffraction, grain boundary engineering,[1] and has written a number of text books on the subject[2][3] She was Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998 and in the same year was awarded the Rosenhain Award[4] for achievements in Materials Science by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.[5]In 2004, she was invited as a guest of HM the Queen to a luncheon at Buckingham Palace for the 'top 180 female achievers in the country'.[6] From 2008 she has been included in Who's Who.[7] as part of increasing public recognition of scientists. She has made significant contributions in the field of materials engineering with over 150 indexed publications in the field.[8]
Randle entered Cardiff University at the age of 27 to study chemistry, and found that the metallurgy module sparked her interest in materials. She then did a PhD and eventually was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship which took her to Swansea University in 1992.
In 1999, she was made a professor in the Department of Metals Engineering,[9] working within the field of microstructure of materials at Swansea University. Randle became Head of the Materials Research Centre in 2007–2009. She has published some 370 research papers and five textbooks, and given many invited lectures all over the world.
After twenty-five years at Swansea University, she retired in 2013.
As Valerie Norris she has published two novels, In the Long Run and The April Letters with Cambria Publishing.[10]
