Prof Anthony Unsworth, FREng's Biography

Prof Anthony Unsworth, FREng's Professional Career

Career

apprentice David Brown Corp 1961, research engr David Brown Gear Industries 1967-69, ARC lectr in bioengineering Univ of Leeds 1971-76 (ARC research fell 1969-71); Univ of Durham: lectr 1976-79, sr lectr 1979-83 (visiting research scientist Mechanical and Aerospace Engrg Cornell Univ NY 1981), reader 1983-89, prof of engrg 1989-, chm Sch of Engrg and Applied Sci 1989-94 and 2000-2006, dir Centre for Biomedical Engrg 1989-, dean of science 1994-2000, dir of research Faculty of Science 2006-10, memb Senate 1984-87, 1990-94 and 1996-2006, memb Cncl 1993-2003, also memb or chm numerous univ ctees; memb Ctee Engrg in Med Gp IMechE 1984- (chm 1989-92), memb Ctee ACTION Research 1989-95 (chm Bioengineering Advsy Panel 1992-95); memb Bd of Govrs Univ of Teesside (formerly Poly) 1986-2000, dir ACTION (charity) 1992-95, memb S Durham HA 1993-96; chm: S Durham Research Ethics Ctee 1993-96, Northern Regnl Research Ethics Ctee 1995-96; memb Editorial Bd: Jl of Orthopaedic Rheumatology 1987-98, Current Orthopaedics 1988-98; ed Engrg in Med Newsletter IMechE 1988-90, ed Proceedings of Instn of Mech Engrs Part H Engrg in Med 1993- (memb Editorial Bd 1988-); scientific referee for papers submitted to various learned jls; author of over 300 publications; deliverer of over 150 lectures to learned socs (incl 60 overseas); Tribology Silver Medal IMechE 1972, Donald Julius Groen Prize IMechE 1991, James Clayton Prize IMechE 1999, James Alfred Ewing Medal ICE 2005; FIMechE 1984 (MIMechE 1972, vice-pres 2008-), FREng 1996, FICE 2003

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