Dr. Hansson has spent more than fifty years studying, and trying to improve, the durability of materials in-service and exposed to corrosion, erosion and/or wear. These are fields that most materials experts shy away from in favour of developing new, advanced materials or processes. Thus, they are dominated by either chemists or mechanical engineers, who have little knowledge of the structure and properties of materials. Consequently, it has been relatively easy for a metallurgical/materials engineer to make a name for herself. Educated at Imperial College in the UK, Dr. Hansson has worked the USA, Denmark and Canada, both in the private sector, Martin Marietta, Bell Labs and the Danish Corrosion Centre, and in academia, Columbia University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in the USA and Queen’s University and the University of Waterloo in Canada. She has been a member of TMS-AIME since 1968 and was a member of the Board of Directors 1992-95. She was elected Fellow of the Society in 1997.