Conferment and inaugural lecture of Regius Professor in Materials
Conferment and inaugural lecture of Regius Professor in Materials
Her Majesty the Queen has honoured The University of Manchester by awarding a Regius Professorship in Materials.
The inaugural incumbent of Manchester’s Regius Professor in Materials will be Philip Withers, the first person to hold this title in the UK.
The award has been given in recognition of the exceptional quality of advanced materials research and teaching at Manchester, which is recognised as world-leading.
Professor Philip Withers FRS, FREng, FRAeS, FIMMM has made a seminal contribution to our fundamental understanding of the performance of materials through his pioneering
use of neutron, synchrotron X-ray and laboratory X-ray beams to provide new insights on behaviour, often in-operando under demanding conditions.
Further, through his leadership of the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials to his new role as Chief Scientist for the Sir Henry Royce Institute for
advanced materials, he has striven to deliver industrial impact as well as science and engineering excellence and recently became the UK’s first Regius Professor of Materials.
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Speaker
Philip Withers
Role: Regius Professor of Materials
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/DocuInfo.aspx?DocID=32599
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