| Professor Sir Richard Brook is Director of
the Leverhulme Trust, a privately funded research support
agency covering all the academic disciplines. He is a
materials scientist with a doctorate from MIT.
Following appointments at the University of Southern
California and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment
(Harwell), he became Professor of Ceramics at the University
of Leeds. He was appointed Director at the Max Planck
Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart in 1988 and
Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford in 1991.
From 1994 to 2001, he was Chief Executive at the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. |
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