Peter Gregson
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Sir Peter Gregson FREng |
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| Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University | |
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Assumed office 1 September 2013 |
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| 11th President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast |
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In office 2004–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Sir George Bain |
| Succeeded by | Prof. Patrick Johnston |
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| Born | 3 November 1957 Dunfermline, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Rachael McClaughry (m. 1983) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
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Academic Engineer |
Sir Peter John Gregson, FREng (born 3 November 1957 in Dunfermline, Scotland) is a British research engineer and the Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University from 2013. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast from 2004. Prior to that he was deputy Vice-Chancellor at Southampton University from 2000-2004.
He joined GKN Rolled and Bright Steel Ltd. as an industrial scholar in 1976. He studied metallurgy and materials science at Imperial College London and graduated with a BSc(Eng) (first class) in materials science in 1980, and was awarded the Bessemer Medal. He obtained a PhD from Imperial in 1983, and was awarded the Matthey Prize.
He was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1983 and became Professor of Aerospace Materials in 1995. During his research career, he published over 160 papers, books and patents with over 80 being in premier academic journals. He was Academic Director of the Luxfer Advanced Technology Centre (1998–2004), the DePuy University Technology Partnership (2000–04) and the Defence and Aerospace Research Partnership (DARP) in Advanced Metallic Airframes. He was a member of the International Committee for the biennial International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA), 1998-04) and Chair of ICAA 2002.
As head of the department and Director of Research for Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science (1995–99), he created a new Transport Systems Research Laboratory and founded an Engineering Graduate School.
As Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton (2000–04), he led the development and implementation of an ambitious vision for Enterprise and Innovation, including the partnership with IP2IPO and SETsquared together with the universities of Bristol, Bath and Surrey.
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