Biography

Professor Igor Guz is Head of School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He joined Aberdeen in 2002 as a Lecturer becoming personal Chair in Engineering in 2007 and the Sixth Century Chair in Solid Mechanics in 2010. Prior to joining Aberdeen, he worked at various positions in Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Vienna University of Technology, University of Stuttgart, University of Paderborn, University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London. Since 2013, he is Head of the School of Engineering in Aberdeen.

Professor Guz is a world-leading authority in solid mechanics whose outstanding research has made considerable impact on current understanding of complex materials, particularly those with strong internal heterogeneities occurring at multiple scales. His lifelong research in advanced anisotropic materials, fracture mechanics, nanomaterials, vibrations control, coupled thermos-electro-mechanical problems has resulted in over 350 publications including 4 books and 150 journal papers. He received the Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree from the Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics and was awarded the Prize of the Academia Europaea and The State Prize of Ukraine in Science & Technology. He won several prestigious research fellowships (Humboldt Fellowship in Germany, Lisa Meitner Fellowship in Austria and several Fellowships at Cambridge University from the Royal Society). He became an Elected Fellow of SNAME in 2016 and was appointed as an Extraordinary Professor of the Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea in 2018.

Professor Guz was organiser and Co-chairman of the Euromech Colloquium 400 in London and delivered over 60 invited talks at the leading universities in the UK, USA, Japan, Australia, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Chile, China and South Korea. In 2004, he has founded the interdisciplinary Centre for Micro- and Nanomechanics (CEMINACS) in Aberdeen, an internationally recognised centre of excellence in mechanics of heterogeneous media. From 2019 Professor Guz is Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Composites Letters.

Professor Guz is serving on the SRPe (Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering) Board and the ETP (Energy Technology Partnership) Board. Outside academia, as a member of the ONE (Opportunity North East) Oil, Gas and Energy Board, he is working closely with industry bodies and the local authorities focussing on maximising the benefits to the region from innovation, internationalisation, training and learning.

Professor Guz was a member of several Expert and Final Panels of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) and Horizon 2020 (EU). He is a regular reviewer for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Estonian Science Foundation (ETF), the National Centre for Research and Development of Poland, the State Education Development Agency (SEDA) of Latvia, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals including Archive of Applied Mechanics, International Applied Mechanics and Ships and Offshore Structures.