Rachael C. Tighe
School of Engineering – Te Kura Mata-Ao, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Dr Rachael C. Tighe is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) and Programme Leader of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is a current Royal Society Te Apārangi, New Zealand Marsden Fund (Fast Start) recipient. Her work focusses on quantitative non-destructive evaluation and full field inspection techniques, particularly thermographic methods, applied to a variety of materials, components and structures for improved damage and defect characterisation.
Rachael obtained her MPhys degree in Physics and MSc degree in Environmental Technology from Lancaster University. She then completed her PhD in Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2014. Rachael has worked as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southampton and for the UK Ministry of Defence before emigrating to New Zealand and joining the University of Waikato.
Rachael has been a member of the Society of Experimental Mechanics since 2011, and has served as the Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Thermomechanics and Infrared Imaging Technical Division. She has previously sat on the British Society for Strain Measurement National Council and the Conference Committee for Manufacturing, Design and Entrepreneurship New Zealand.
Rachael obtained her MPhys degree in Physics and MSc degree in Environmental Technology from Lancaster University. She then completed her PhD in Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2014. Rachael has worked as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southampton and for the UK Ministry of Defence before emigrating to New Zealand and joining the University of Waikato.
Rachael has been a member of the Society of Experimental Mechanics since 2011, and has served as the Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Thermomechanics and Infrared Imaging Technical Division. She has previously sat on the British Society for Strain Measurement National Council and the Conference Committee for Manufacturing, Design and Entrepreneurship New Zealand.
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Last Updated: 06/18/2024
