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Rhys Jones

Swinburne University of Technology, Monash University, Adelaide University, Emeritus Professor, Monash University

Research areas: Engineering · Mechanics of Materials · Fatigue and fracture mechanics · Mechanical Behavior of Composites · Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals

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Professor Jones is recipient of the Companion of The Order of Australia. This is the Highest Honour that can be given to an Australian Citizen and was given for his contributions to Australian Aerospace.

Professor Jones retired from Monash in December 2017. In January 2018 the Vice Chancellor made Professor Jones an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Monash University’s Clayton Campus. Professor Jones is also a Visiting Professor at Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales.

Whilst at Monash Professor Jones was:

• Program Leader New Steels in the CRC Rail Manufacturing.
• Head of the Australian Defence Department’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) Centre of Expertise in (Aircraft) Structural Mechanics (CoE-SM),
• Co-Founder, and Past Board Member, of the Australian Commonwealth Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Railway Engineering,
• Co-Founder, and Past Board Member, of the Australian Commonwealth Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS),
• Co-Founder, Research Committee Member, and Research Executive (PLIAN) Member for the CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM).
• CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management Program Leader for Advanced Sensors Research.
• Founding Professor Monash-BHP Institute for Railway Technology.
• Founding Professor Monash-BHP Institute for Maintenance Technology.
• Program Leader Structural Integrity Research in the CIEAM II.

Prior to joining Monash Professor Jones held the positions:

1986 -1993: Research Leader, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Aircraft Structures Division; Aeronautical Research Laboratory (ARL), Department of Defence;
1984-1993: Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne;
1982- 1986: Principal Research Scientist, Aircraft Structures Division, ARL;
1977- 1982: Research Scientist, Vibration and Aeroelasticity and the Structural Mechanics Groups, Structures Division, ARL;
1976: Post Doctoral Fellow, joint appointment Applied Mathematics and Civil
Engineering, Adelaide University;
1975: Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Witwatersrand;
1974: Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Swinburne Institute of Technology;
1973: Tutor, Dept of Mathematics, Monash University;
1972: Part Time Tutor, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, School of
Engineering, University of Auckland.

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