Ohio State University College of Engineering has announced that Dr. Gerald S. Frankel has been named to the newly created DNV Chair in Corrosion, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Frankel joined Ohio State in 1995 as an associate professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Fontana Corrosion Center, and was promoted to professor in 1999. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in materials science engineering from Brown University in 1978 and a Doctor of Science degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. Prior to joining Ohio State, he served as a post doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute in Zurich and as a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York.
His primary research interests are in the passivation and localized corrosion of metals and alloys, corrosion inhibition, and protective coatings. He has published more than 200 publications, and has served as past chairman of the Corrosion Division of the Electrochemical Society, past chairman of the Research Committee of NACE, and member of the editorial board of the journals Corrosion, Materials and Corrosion, and Corrosion Reviews.
Frankel is a fellow of NACE International, the Electrochemical Society, and ASM International. He has received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for senior U.S. scientists and the H.H. Uhlig Educators Award from NACE. In 2005, he spent his sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The DNV Chair in Corrosion is supported by Det Norske Veritas, an independent foundation headquartered in Oslo, Norway that provides services for managing risk and invests in research and innovation with the objective of safeguarding life, property, and the environment. The DNV Chair at Ohio State is associated with the creation of the Research and Innovation Center at CC Technologies, a DNV company located in Dublin, Ohio.