Brian Cantor
Professor Brian Cantor is 56 years old and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. He has worked at Sussex, Oxford and York Universities. At Oxford, he was Cookson Professor of Materials, the first Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and a member of the General Board and Council. He is currently the Vice-Chancellor at the University of York. He is a consultant for Rolls-Royce and has worked with leading companies such as Alcan, Elsevier and General Electric. He is on the Board of Amaethon, York Science Park, White Rose and the Worldwide Universities Network, and was on the Board of Isis Innovation and the Kobe Institute. He has advised agencies such as EPSRC, NASA, the EU, and the Dutch and Spanish governments. He is a member of the Singapore-British Business Council.He founded the Begbroke Business and Science Park, the Oxford-Princeton link, the Oxford Centre for Advanced Materials and Composites, the Oxford Business Liaison Unit, the Faraday Advance Partnership, the Begbroke Institute of Technology and the York Nanocentre. His research investigates the manufacture of materials, and has contributed to improvements in products such as electrical transformers, pistons, car brakes, aeroengines and lithographic sheet. He has supervised over 130 research students and postdocs, published over 300 books, papers and patents, and given over 100 invited talks in more than 15 countries. He was awarded the Rosenhain and Platinum Medals of the Institute of Materials, the first for “outstanding academic/industrial collaboration” and the second for “lifetime contributions to materials science”. He is an Honorary Professor at Northeastern University Shenyang and the Chinese Institute of Materials, and a Member of the Academia Europea and the World Technology Forum. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Academy of Engineering, elected to the last as “a world authority on materials manufacturing”. Brian is a member of the EPSRC Technical Opportunities Committee. |
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