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Professor Anthony G. Evans

Department of Mechanical Engineering
and Department of Materials
Engr II, Room 2361A
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070

Phone: (805) 893-7839 / Fax: (805) 893-8651
E-mail: agevans@engineering.ucsb.edu

Anthony G. Evans is Alcoa Professor of Materials, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures at the University of California at Santa Barbara. From 1998 to 2002, he served as Gordon Wu Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University. During 1994-1998, he was Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Engineering at Harvard University. Prior to that he was the founding Chair of the Materials Department and Director of the High Performance Composites Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1985-1994) and a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley (1978-1985). Author of over 540 publications, Evans has been honored with numerous awards and is one of the most highly cited authors in Materials Science, as well as in Engineering and Physics. A native of Wales, Evans earned his Ph.D. (1967) in metallurgy at Imperial College, London. He worked as a research project leader at AERE Harwell and at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, before joining the Rockwell International Science Center, as a group leader. Evans has been vice president of the American Ceramic Society (1984-1988) and for four years, served as chair of the Defense Sciences Research Council.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2006 Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering (London)
2005 Fellow, National Academy of Science
2005 Gold Medal (ASM International)
2003 Nadai Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
2002 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (Germany)
2001 Fellow, Royal Society (London)
2001 M ellor Memorial Lecturer (The Institute of Materials, U.K.)
2000 Turnbull Award (Materials Research Society)
2000 Fellow Academy of Arts and Sciences
2000 Distinguished Life Member (American Ceramic Society)
1998 Peterson Award (Society for Experimental Mechanics)
1997 Fellow, National Academy of Engineering
1994 Griffith Medal and Prize (The Institute of Materials, U.K.)
1993 Honorary Fellow (International Congress on Fracture)
1988 Orton Lecture (American Ceramic Society)
1988 John Jeppson Medal (American Ceramic Society)
1986 Hobart N. Kraner Award (American Ceramic Society)
1984 Clyde Distinguished Professor (University of Utah)
1983 Van Horne Distinguished Lecturer (Case Western Reserve University)
1980 Robert Sosman Award (American Ceramic Society)
1979 Richard M. Fulrath Award (American Ceramic Society)
1974 Ross Coffin Purdy Award (American Ceramic Society)
1967 Matthey Prize (Imperial College)