About Will

Will joined IFM in April 2016 to help bring industry projects to ACID. He is a clay mineralogist and physical chemist who likes to apply various spectroscopic and physical methods to improve performance aspects of industrial and engineered materials. His duties include developing large industry-funded infrastructure R&D projects, expanding ACID’s industrial R&D links into environmental lining technologies (e.g., landfill liners, tailings dams) and other built infrastructure outside the realm of reinforced concrete as well as managing ARC Linkage and Discovery projects.

His main research interests include:

• defining and assessing durability of cements and concretes
• improving the resistance of cements and concretes to chloride (and other corrosives) ingress
• improving the resistance of bentonites and bentonite-based barriers to extreme conditions of salinity, temperature and pH
• investigating the selective hydration of (clay) mineral surfaces using various spectroscopic and physical methods

He has recently co-edited a book on “Infrared and Raman Spectroscopies of Clay Minerals” 2017 as part of the “Advances in Clay Science” series by Elsevier.