At the invitation of Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Prof. Tim Burstein, Cambridge University, visited IMR on Sept.25-Sept. 28, 2011, as a recipient of 2011 Lee Hsun Lecture Award. Prof. Tim Burstein delivered a lecture entitled as “Some unusual characteristics of the passive state of metals, and the processes leading to its breakdown”.  Before the lecture, Prof. Huiming Cheng, the Deputy Director of IMR, had a meeting with Prof. Tim Burstein, and presented the plaque of Lee Hsun Lecture Award to Prof. Tim Burstein. During the visiting, Prof. Tim Burstein had a warm discussion and deep exchange of mutual research interests with the Research Specialist Staff working in the related research fields, and toured Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL) and Environmental Corrosion Research Centre.

Prof. Tim Burstein is the Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, Life Fellow Institute of Corrosion, and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He researches in corrosion and passivation of metals and in electrocatalysis and fuel cells, and has over 200 original publications. Prof. Tim Burstein has gotten many prize and awards, such as the Annual prize of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in 1971, the T.P. Hoar Prize, Institute of Corrosion in 1985, and the Pilkington Prize for Teaching, University of Cambridge in 2002, and UR Evans Sword of the Institute of Corrosion, HH Uhlig Award of the Electrochemical Society in 2006. He has research links with many research organizations, including Monash University (Australia), University of La Laguna (Spain) and University of Birmingham (UK).