Brian Cantor

[3] Cantor is acknowledged as a world authority on materials manufacturing[4] and is a former vice-president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

He has published over 300 books and papers, with over 16,000 citations and a Google h-index of over 50, and is on the ISI List of Most Cited Researchers.

[citation needed] He has chaired and been on the board of many companies and agencies, including the Kobe Institute, the UK Universities Pensions Forum,[7] the White Rose University Consortium,[8] Yorkshire Innovation, Leeds, York and Bradford Economic Partnerships,[9] the Chambers of Commerce,[10] the National Science Learning Centre, the Centre for Low Carbon Futures,[11] Science City York,[12] the Worldwide Universities Network,[13] the UK College of Business and Computing, The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and the Science Museum Group.

[15] Cantor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to higher education.

[16] Cantor's research has investigated the manufacture of materials and has contributed to fundamental scientific advances as well as improvements in many industrial products.