Dr Russell Horney

Lecturer
Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

Email:  Russell.Horney@med.monash.edu.au

BSc (Hons) (Monash), PhD (Monash), MAIP, MIEAust, CPEng

Russell graduated in physics from Monash University in 1974 studying defects in natural topaz by X-ray topography before moving to the UK to study the temperature dependence of thermal vibrational amplitudes in face-centred cubic metals by thermal neutron scattering at the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK.

In 1979, Russell turned to mechanical engineering involving large fans and compressors with Parsons Turbine Generators in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, high pressure gas release testing with British Gas Corporation in Cumbria, UK and surface coatings research with Advanced Surface Engineering Technologies, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. Returning to Melbourne in 1988, Russell was involved, for nine years, with hydrocarbon equipment engineering.

Since 1999, Russell has taught mechanical engineering at Swinburne University, TAFE Division and physics at Chisholm Institute of TAFE and Monash University. Russell commenced work for his PhD in physics at Monash in 2001, graduating with the degree in 2005. His field of research relates to the use of X-ray computed tomography for precision dimensional measurements. Russell is currently a lecturer jointly with the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences and the School of Physics at Monash, teaching radiologic physics (which he convenes), radiographic imaging and computed tomography.