Polina Snugovsky

Polina Snugovsky received the Ph.D. degree in metallurgy from the State Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk, and in 1985 she received the higher level Doctoral degree in metallurgy and materials science. She was a Full Professor in the Department of Physical Metallurgy, State Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine. She is currently a Global Metallurgical Consultant at Celestica, Toronto, ON, Canada. Since 1999, she has actively participated in the NEMI consortia for Lead Free Assembly and Rework, with emphasis on failure analysis, and worked closely with other industry-leading researchers. Prior to her work facilitating the development of lead-free soldering processes at Celestica, she was a key figure in the understanding and mitigation of Black Pad failures on ENIG PCBs, in development of a plasma cleaning process and related laboratory methods for contamination (failure) analysis, and is the primary resource for major soldering-related failure analyses. She is a specialist in eutectic materials and phase transformations. She has published over 100 papers and patented new materials and processes.