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Four New Visiting Professors Have Joined The Department
13 December 2004
Professors Asim Ray, Piet Lemstra, Huibin Xu and Atsushi Murakami have been appointed as Visiting Professors to our Department untill the 30th of September 2008.
Prof Asim Ray has a long track record of research in the field of electronic materials and has considerable experience in academic research and academic administration with a long period as Head of Division at Sheffield Hallam University. He also has extensive contacts in Malaysia and India which he will exploit in order to attract students to Queen Mary, at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Level.
Prof Piet Lemstra is one of Europe's foremost authorities in the field of polymers. He is the author of numerous papers and patents acknowledged to be at the forefront of the subject. He is currently the scientific Director of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), the body established to channel all research funding in Holland into Dutch universities and remain a full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Prof Lemstra has assisted QMUL in becoming a member of the DPI (the only body outside of Holland to be a member to receive research funding from that organisation), and he has been instrumental in securing EU Asia Link funding linking QMUL and Eindhoven University with Shanghai Jiao Tong and Fudan Universities in China.
Prof Huibin Xu is now Vice President of Beihang University (BUAA) in Beijing, China. He was formerly Head of Materials and was responsible for approving and encouraging a link with QMUL which has lead to the establishment of 3+2 undergraduate programmes. More recently an agreement for a joint two year MSc degree in Advanced Materials has been signed and it is possible that collaboration between the two universities might extend to other departments and to the creation of a joint new university in Gangxi province.
Prof Atsushi Murakami is a senior professor at the Himeji Institute of Technology with research interests in the field of adhesion, composite materials and biomaterials. These interests map very closely onto parallel research fields within the Department of Materials. His research group has established close links with the department ever since he visited us for a year in 1986. He regularly sends an MSc student to spend a year with us to foster collaboration.
Welcome aboard!
Prof Asim Ray has a long track record of research in the field of electronic materials and has considerable experience in academic research and academic administration with a long period as Head of Division at Sheffield Hallam University. He also has extensive contacts in Malaysia and India which he will exploit in order to attract students to Queen Mary, at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Level.
Prof Piet Lemstra is one of Europe's foremost authorities in the field of polymers. He is the author of numerous papers and patents acknowledged to be at the forefront of the subject. He is currently the scientific Director of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), the body established to channel all research funding in Holland into Dutch universities and remain a full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Prof Lemstra has assisted QMUL in becoming a member of the DPI (the only body outside of Holland to be a member to receive research funding from that organisation), and he has been instrumental in securing EU Asia Link funding linking QMUL and Eindhoven University with Shanghai Jiao Tong and Fudan Universities in China.
Prof Huibin Xu is now Vice President of Beihang University (BUAA) in Beijing, China. He was formerly Head of Materials and was responsible for approving and encouraging a link with QMUL which has lead to the establishment of 3+2 undergraduate programmes. More recently an agreement for a joint two year MSc degree in Advanced Materials has been signed and it is possible that collaboration between the two universities might extend to other departments and to the creation of a joint new university in Gangxi province.
Prof Atsushi Murakami is a senior professor at the Himeji Institute of Technology with research interests in the field of adhesion, composite materials and biomaterials. These interests map very closely onto parallel research fields within the Department of Materials. His research group has established close links with the department ever since he visited us for a year in 1986. He regularly sends an MSc student to spend a year with us to foster collaboration.
Welcome aboard!
Updated by: Sandra Wells