Claire Louise Davis is a British metallurgist who is Tata Steel Professor and chair in Low Energy Steel Processing at the University of Warwick. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Early life and education.
Davis was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge. She was supported by Tata Steel for her studies, and spent part of her doctoral research at Nippon Steel. Her doctoral research looked at the structural properties of steel.
Research and career.
At Warwick, Davis develops research to improve the performance of steel, develop new steels and create new strategies to process steels. Her research considers the composition-processing-structure relationships in steels. She has developed rapid alloy processing and in-line sensors to evaluate steel microstructures. Davis has developed various strategies to create green steels. This involves the use of non-metallic coatings and surface state optimisation.
Alongside her research, Davis has focussed on the development of innovations in materials science education.