Professor norrish has more than 50 years involvement with welding engineering in industry and academic research. He has a special interest in arc welding process monitoring and control, metal transfer phenomena, additive manufacturing, and health and safety in welding operations. He was involved in the original development of advanced welding systems and programmable process control. He was also the instigator of robotic wire arc additive manufacturing in the 1990’s.
He is former vice chair of the International Institute of Welding (IIW), commission XII and study group 212 and sits on the editorial board of the IIW journal, Welding in the World. He is a chartered engineer, Eur.Ing, Fellow of the Welding Institute, Honorary Fellow of the International Welding Institute and the American Welding Society. He was a founding board member of DMTC and an honorary fellow of this organisation.
John has more than two hundred publications in refereed journals and international conferences.
He is also the author of a Book - Advanced Welding Processes, originally published by The Institute of Physics in 1992 and revised and republished by Woodhead Publishing in 2006.
Although formally retired from UOW in 2012 he became an Emeritus Professor and continues to be involved in research activities of the facility for intelligent fabrication (FIF) at UOW.