Emeritus ProfessorTony Kinloch, FREng, FRS

Professor Tony Kinloch PhD, DSc (Eng), FCGI, FIMMM, FIMechE, FRSC, FREng, FRS holds a personal chair as 'Professor of Adhesion'. He was 'Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering' from 2007 to 2012. He has published over two hundred patents and refereed papers in the areas of adhesion and adhesives, toughened polymers, nanocomposites and the fracture of polymers and fibre-composites; and written and edited seven books in these areas. Over eighty students have obtained their MSc and PhD Theses under his supervision, with over fifty of this number being PhD Theses. In 1992 he received the US Adhesion Society 3M Award for 'Excellence in Adhesion Science' and was elected a 'R.L. Patrick Fellow' of the Society in 1995. Also, in 1994 he received the Adhesion Society of Japan Award for 'Distinguished Contributions to the Development of Adhesion Science and Technology'. In 1996 he was awarded the 'Griffith Medal and Prize' from the Institute of Materials, UK, for his work on the application of fracture mechanics to studies of adhesion and adhesives, and in 1997 he was awarded the 'Hawksley Gold Medal' from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK. In 2001, he was invited to give 'The Dow Honorary Lecture' of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. In 2002 he was awarded the 'Wake Memorial Medal' from the Institute of Materials, UK and named as 'R & D Scientist of the Year' by the US Adhesives Age Journal. He was elected President of the US Adhesion Society for 2002-2004. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2007 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2009 he was awarded 'The Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers' Company Prize for 'Excellence in Materials Science and Technology' and the 'Le Prix Dédale de la Sociéte Française d'Adhesion'.