Dr Joshua Owen

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Dr Joshua Owen is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Functional Surfaces, School of Mechanical Engineering, with multidisciplinary research interests encompassing corrosion science, electrochemical sensing and nanotechnology. He has a breadth of expertise in the application of electrochemical and mathematical techniques to understand and model corrosion and erosion-corrosion phenomena, specialising in the design of bespoke flow systems to understand these processes. He has a diverse background of postdoctoral research, having previously developed a microfluidic, monolayer on-chip electrochemical biosensor for nanomaterial toxicity screening. His current research focuses on the augmentation of protective corrosion products in geothermal applications.

Research interests

Dr Owen’s research interests include: 

• Corrosion in geothermal systems – investigating the augmentation of protective corrosion products that form on carbon steel in high temperature, high pressure CO2 environments
• Corrosion modelling – implementation of computational fluid dynamics to simulate corrosive species transport and predict corrosion rates of carbon steel in complex hydrodynamic CO2 environments
• Electrochemical flow cell design – design of bespoke flow systems for electrochemical analysis of various corrosion phenomena, including corrosion inhibition 
• Electrochemical sensing – design of microfluidic flow cells for electrochemical biosensing of nanomaterial toxicity
• Erosion-corrosion – experimental studies of enhanced carbon steel degradation rates caused by the presence of sand particles in corrosive flow

• ENVIRO-COAT: ENVIROnmentally assisted, engineered Corrosion prOducts for Aqueous corrosion miTigation

Qualifications

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds
• MEng Automotive Engineering, University of Leeds

Professional memberships

• Institute of Corrosion

Research groups and institutes

• Institute of Functional Surfaces
• Corrosion and flow assurance