Dr. Alan Cocks

Biography

Professor Alan Cocks gained his BSc in General Engineering from the University of Leicester in 1977 and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1981 under the supervision of Mike Ashby. He has held various academic positions, including Research Associate at Leicester University and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1984-85). He became a Lecturer in Engineering at Leicester and later a Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge from 1990 to 1996. In 1996, he was appointed a Professor of Engineering at Leicester and served as Head of Department from 2004 to 2005. In 2006, Alan was appointed to a Professorship in Materials Engineering at the University of Oxford and elected to a fellowship at St Anne’s College. His research focuses on micromechanical computational modeling of deformation and failure processes in engineering materials, particularly at elevated temperatures, and modeling material processing procedures. He is a member of the advisory board for the European Journal of Mechanics and has held various institutional activities including External Examiner for BEng/MEng degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester. He is also involved with the Royal Society UK Panel on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the EDF Expert Panel on Creep in Stainless Steel, among other roles in the academic community.

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