Brian Cantor is Professor of Materials at Oxford and Brunel Universities, Trustee of the Science Museums Group, Chief Editor of the Springer-Nature journal High Entropy Alloys and Materials, and Director of the UN International Centre for Excellence in Circular Materials. He invented the field of multicomponent high-entropy materials, discovered 'Cantor alloys', and made influential contributions in solidification, spray-forming, metal-matrix composites, and amorphous alloys.
He has previously been Vice-Chancellor (President) of the Universities of Bradford and York, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Oxford University, research scientist at GE Labs in the USA, consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He founded and built up Begbroke Science Park, the Heslington East Campus, the Hull-York Medical School, the National Science Learning Centre (now the National STEM Centre), the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health, and the World Technology Universities Network.
He has published over 300 books and papers, been on many company boards, and received scientific prizes, honorary professorships and fellowships in the UK, USA, China, Japan and India. He was awarded a CBE for services to higher education in 2013.
Professional position
- Visiting Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford
- Professor and Senior Advisor, Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST), Brunel University London
