Professor Brian Cantor
Consultant - BCAST

Summary

Brian Cantor is a Professor of Materials at Oxford and Brunel Universities.  He is also a Trustee of the Science Museums Group, co-Director of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Circular Metals, and a Chief Editor of the new Springer-Nature journal High Entropy Alloys & Materials.  He has written over 300 books and papers.  He invented the field of Multicomponent High Entropy Alloys and discovered “Cantor alloys”.

In the recent past, he has been Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Bradford and York, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Oxford, a research scientist at GE Labs in the USA, a consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, editor of Progress in Materials Science and a Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.  He has worked at other universities such as Sussex, Northeastern, Banaras, Washington State, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute, and chaired or been on boards such as the Marshall Aid Commission, the UK Universities Pensions Forum, and Bradford, Leeds and York Local Economic Partnerships (LEPs).  He founded, chaired and built up the Begbroke Science Park, the Heslington East Campus, the Hull-York Medical School, the Institute for Effective Education, the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, the Centre for Applied Human Rights, the Digital Health Enterprise Zone, the National Science Learning Centre, the World Technology Universities Network, and the CircularMetal Research Centre.

He has received academic prizes, honorary professorships and fellowships in the UK, USA, China and India.  He was awarded a CBE for services to higher education in 2013.