Dr. Cindie Giummarra is a Materials Engineer who received her B.Eng (Hons) and B.Sci from Monash University (Australia), and a Masters and Ph.D in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA). Her Ph.D thesis was awarded for research on fretting fatigue of 2XXX series aerospace aluminum alloys.

Cindie has previously worked for Alcoa (now Arconic) on the research and development of aerospace aluminum alloys, including alloy development of cutting edge aluminium-lithium aerospace alloys, property testing and fatigue life improvement methods.

She has also taught at the University of Minnesota in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department.

Cindie is currently working on stress corrosion cracking of steel at the Defence Science and Technology Group for Australia?s Department of Defence.

She has authored two CINDAS chapters on 2026/2624 and 2099 aluminum alloys.