He currenty co-ordinates research for the School of Engineeirng and continues to be active in his field of High Temperature Materials Processing. In recent he has been active in developing research around the processing of lunar materials and working with Physicists on Dark Matter detection research. Professor Brooks has published over 200 papers on fundamental aspects of steelmaking, aluminium production and materials processing in general. He has won significant international awards from the TMS, AIST, ASM and IOM3 for his contribution to metallurgical processing.