Professor Terence G Langdon PhD, DSc, DSc hon causa, Dr hon causa, FREng
Professor of Materials Science, Director, Centre for Bulk Nanostructured Materials

Professor Terence G Langdon is Professor of Materials Science within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Education:
1965 Ph.D. Physical Metallurgy, Imperial College, University of London, U.K.
1961 B.Sc. Physics with Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol, U.K.
Academic positions
Date | Position |
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2012- | Professor of Materials Science, University of Southampton |
2012- | William E. Leonhard Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
2005-: | Research Professor of Materials Science, University of Southampton |
2003-: | William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. |
1976-: | Professor, Departments of Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. |
1971-76: | Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. |
1969-71: | Research Associate, Department of Metallurgy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
1968-69: | Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K. |
1967-68: | Visiting Scientist, Edgar C. Bain Laboratory for Fundamental Research, U.S. Steel Corporation, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
1965-67: | Research Metallurgist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
Academic Honours and Awards:
- Special issue of Advanced Engineering Materials published in honour of 80th birthday (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2020)
- Honorary Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China (2019)
- Visiting Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China (2018)
- Oleg D. Sherby Award, TMS (2018)
- Degree of DSc (honoris causa), Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2016)
- State Award of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Science and Technology (2015)
- Visiting Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2015)
- Friend of the Faculty Award, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (2015)
- Visiting Professor, Kuwait College of Technological Studies, Kuwait (2014)
- Visiting Professor, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (2014)
- Member, Academia Europaea (2014)
- Guest Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology. Harbin, China (2014)
- University of Southern California Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
- Acta Materialia Gold Medal (2012)
- The Challenge Lecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India (2012)
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (2011- )
- Fellow, The Materials Research Society (2011)
- Memorial Medal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague (2009)
- Honorary Medal “De Scientia et Humanitate Optime Meritis,” Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2009)
- Bulk Nanostructured Materials Honours Award, Congress on Nanotechnologies (2009)
- Fellow, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009)
- Hsun Lee Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009)
- Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Sciences (2008)
- Fellow, European Academy of Sciences (2008)
- Albert Sauveur Achievement Award, ASM International (2007)
- THERMEC Distinguished Award, THERMEC International Conferences (2006)
- Sõmiya Award, International Union of Materials Research Societies (2005)
- Structural Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, TMS (2005)
- Honorary Member, The Japan Institute of Metals (2005)
- Fellow, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) (2005)
- Special issue of Materials Science and Engineering A published in honour of 65th birthday (Vol. 410-411, 2005)
- Fellow, The World Innovation Foundation (2004)
- The Gifkins Lecture, Institute of Materials Engineering Australasia (2003)
- The Tewskbury Lecture in Engineering, University of Melbourne (2003)
- Degree of Doctor honoris causa, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (2003)
- Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), U.K. (2002)
- Visiting Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (2001)
- Henry Marion Howe Medal, ASM International (2000)
- Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark (1998)
- Visiting Senior Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (1997)
- Foreign Member, Academy of Sciences of the Bashkortostan Republic, Russia (1994)
- Fellow, ASM International (1991)
- Visiting Scientist, Metallurgy Department, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark (1984)
- Visiting Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico (1981)
- Fellow, The American Ceramic Society (1981)
- Degree of D.Sc. in Physics, University of Bristol (1980)
- Visiting Professor, Department of Metallurgy, University of Melbourne, Australia (1977-78)
- Fellow, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) (1975)
- Fellow, The Institute of Physics (FInstP) (1972)
Professional Accreditation:
C.Eng., C.Phys., C.Sci.
Current Professional Activities:
- Member, TMS/ASM Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee
- Member, Executive Committee of THERMEC for International Conferences on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials
- Founding Member, The International NanoSPD Steering Committee for International Conferences on Nanomaterials Processed by Severe Plastic Deformation
- Member, TMS Structural Materials Division Awards Committee
- Member, Scientific Committee of Materials Science and Engineering Division, European Academy of Sciences
- Member, Universal Scientific Education and Research Network
- Member, Scientific Presidium, European Academy of Sciences
Current Editorial Appointments:
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Materials Science
- Member, Editorial Board, Materials Science Forum
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Materials Science and Engineering A
- Member, International Editorial Board, Reviews on Advanced Materials Science
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Scientia Nanotechnology
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Ultrafine-Grained and Nanostructured Materials
- International Advisory Editor, Journal of Materials Research and Technology
- Member, Advisory Committee, Journal of Forming Processes
- Member, Advisory Board, Materials Research Letters
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Materials Research Foundations
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Metals and Materials International
Scientific Ranking in Materials Science:
- Listed by Thomson Reuters/ISI in the 2014 Highly Cited Researchers List based on numbers of citations received for publications during the 11-year period from January 2002 to December 2012.
- Ranked by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, PA) as #2 world-wide out of 3123 materials scientists for publishing in the field of Materials Science based on numbers of citations received for papers published during the 11-year period from January 1996 to December 2006.
- Ranked by ISI as #3 world-wide for total numbers of High Impact Papers published in Materials Science during the period 1981-2001 (High Impact Papers defined as the 200 most cited papers in Materials Science for each separate year)
- Total numbers of papers appearing in peer-reviewed journals: >1,100
- Total number of citations received to date: >61,000 on ISI Web of Science; >83,000 on Google Scholar
- Average number of citations received for each published scientific paper: >50
- Value of h-index: 119 on ISI Web of Science, 121 on Scopus, 135 on Google Scholar
- Full publication and citation information available at: researcherid.com