Professor Paul Hazell
BEng (Hons)
EngD
Paul Hazell is a professor of impact dynamics in the School of Engineering and Technology (SET) at 黑料网大事记 Canberra.听Paul is also the Director of the Impact Dynamics Research Group (IDRG) and Lab at 黑料网大事记 Canberra, and has published extensively in the field of impact dynamics (that is, the mechanics of what happens during a collision). He is also on the editorial board for the journals International Journal of Impact Engineering (Elsevier), Biomimetics (MDPI), and Shock Waves (Springer). He also served on the editorial board for听Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)听and wrote the reference book听 (CRC Press, 2/e, 2022,),听and a popular science book on guns, entitled: '鈥 (Springer Praxis, 1/e, 2021).
His main research interests centre on the dynamic behaviour of materials and structures that have been subjected to impact / shock loading.听
Paul's teaching experience includes courses on computational modelling techniques, shock wave theory, impact dynamics, and survivability. He has won several awards for his 'motivated' lecturing style. In addition, in 2023 he won the听黑料网大事记 Students' Choice Teaching听Award for his 'inspirational nurturing skills' with HDR students. See 听蹿辞谤 a YouTube video on听the award details.
Paul has appeared in several documentaries as an expert commentator, usually around war machines. These have included:
- War Machines: Modern Warfare, WildBear, Published: 2025.
- Secret Weapons of World War II, WildBear, Published: 2024.
- How Factories Changed the World, WildBear, Published: 2020. E.g., see a .
- Machinery of War, WildBear, Published: 2019. E.g., see a .
- Combat Countdown,听Discovery Military Channel (US),听US, Wag TV, Published: 2012. E.g., see a .
- Weapons of War, National听Geographic / History Channel, Published 2005. E.g., see a .
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Teaching / presentation awards
- 黑料网大事记 2023 Students' Choice Teaching听Award Winner, 23 November 2023. See 听蹿辞谤 a YouTube video on听the award details.
- NUS Best Teacher Award for contributions to an MSc course at the National University of Singapore in recognition of 鈥渄edication and commitment鈥, 28 March 2006.
- Winner (1st prize) of the National Lecture Competition (UK) sponsored by the Institute of Materials, with a talk on the 鈥楬igh Velocity Attack of Ceramic Armour鈥, 24 April 1997.
- Winner (1st prize) of The Institute of Materials South East Region (UK) Final of the National Lecture Competition (Class II), 11 April 1997.
- Winner (1st prize) of the Oxford Metallurgical Society Lecture Competition, 18 March 1997.
Recent research / paper awards (won by Paul's students!)
- Bogahawaththa M; Mohotti D; Hazell PJ; Wang H; Wijesooriya K; Lee CK,听2024,听'Energy absorption and mechanical performance of 3D printed Menger fractal structures',听Engineering Structures,听305,听. Ranked as the Best Paper of the Year for 2024 in the category of 'Novel Structures' in the journal听Engineering Structures.
- Shah S; Hazell PJ; Wang H; Escobedo JP,听2025,听'Shock wave mitigation using periodically discrete material layers of variable orientation: Experiments and simulations',听Journal of Applied Physics,听137, 11, a.115905,听. Editors' Featured Paper Award for the Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 137, Issue 11, 2025.
- Bogahawaththa M; Mohotti D; Hazell PJ; Wang H; Wijesooriya K; Lee CK,听2024,听'Energy absorption and mechanical performance of 3D printed Menger fractal structures',听Engineering Structures,听305,听. Editors' Featured Paper Award听蹿辞谤 Engineering Structures, Vol. 305, 2024.听
- Serubibi A; Hazell PJ; Escobedo JP; Wang H; Oromiehie E; Prusty BG, Analysis of AFP manufactured fibre metal laminate structures under impact loading, ACAM10 鈥 Best postgraduate student paper, 2021.
- Md Ashraf Islam, A Kader, A. Brown, P J Hazell, J P Escobedo-Diaz, X-ray and Microstructural Study of a Set of Cast Aluminum Alloys, TMS - EPD Materials Characterization Best Poster Award - 2018.
- Md Ashraf Islam, A. Brown, P J Hazell, J P Escobedo-Diaz, M Saadatfar, Deformation Mechanisms of Closed-Cell Aluminium Foams During Drop Weight Impact, TMS - EPD Materials Characterization Best Paper Award 鈥 2017.
- Z Li, A Khennane, PJ Hazell, A Remennikov, Numerical modeling of a hybrid GFRP-concrete beam subjected to low-velocity impact loading, Best Paper Award at The 8th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2017), Guilin, China 鈥 2017.
Paul's work can be divided into five key themes:
- Shock compression of condensed matter.听