I am a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at UNSW where I am doing both research and teaching. My research is focused on complex gas-solid reactions at high temperatures in application to steel/alloy high temperature corrosion and metallurgical technologies. I started the gas-solid reaction research when I carried out my PhD work in the field of process metallurgy on iron ore reduction and cementation. My high temperature corrosion research commenced at Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research (MPIE) in Germany as a research scientist after my PhD. Three years research at MPIE in the field of high temperature corrosion laid a sound foundation for my further work at UNSW in this research area.