Professor Brian Cantor has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of York since 2002, and is acknowledged as a world authority on materials manufacturing.^[1] He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Christ's College, Cambridge. After working at Sussex University he went to Oxford University where he was Cookson Professor of Materials, Head of the Department of Materials, first Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, founder of the Oxford Centre for Advance Materials and Composites, founder of Begbroke Science Park and a member of the University Council. He was a Fellow of Jesus College and St Catherine's College and was on the board of the Kobe Institute and Isis Innovation. He also worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and at the GE R&D Center, Schenectady.

His research has investigated the manufacture of materials and has contributed to improvements in many industrial products. He has worked with leading companies such as Alcan, Elsevier, General Electric and Rolls Royce. He has advised agencies such as the British Treasury, EPSRC, NASA, the EU and the Dutch government.

Professor Cantor has supervised over 130 research and postdoctoral students, published over 300 papers and books, given over 100 invited talks in more than 15 countries, and appears on the Institute for Scientific Information's list of Most Cited Researchers. In York, he continues to consult for Rolls Royce and edits Progress in Materials Science for Elsevier.

He is on the boards of Yorkshire Science, the White Rose consortium, Worldwide Universities Network and the National Science Learning Centre. He is an Honorary Professor at Northeastern University Shenyang, Zhejiang University and the Chinese National Institute of Materials. He is a member of Academia Europaea and the World Technology Forum. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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