Yorkshire Science

BrianCantor

Deputy Chair of Yorkshire Science

Professor Brian Cantor has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of York since 2002, and is a world authority on materials manufacturing.  He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and 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 Advanced Materials and Composites, founder of Begbroke Science Park and a member of the University Council.  He was a Fellow of Jesus and St Catherine’s Colleges and was on the board of the Kobe Institute and Isis Innovation. He also worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and 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 Treasury, EPSRC, NASA, the EU and the Dutch, Spanish and German governments.  He has supervised over 130 research students and postdocs, published over 300 papers and books, given over 100 invited talks in more than 15 countries, and is on the ISI Most Cited Researchers List. In York, he continues to consult for Rolls-Royce and edit Progress in Materials Science for Elsevier. 

He is on the board 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, and a Member of 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.