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Professor Trevor Page FREng
Emeritus Professor (Newcastle University)

Before taking partial retiring to become an Emeritus Research Professor in 2008, Trevor Page held the Cookson Group Chair of Materials Engineering at Newcastle University, was former Head of the Materials Division in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering and was also Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research where he took responsibility for the University's research strategy and performance together with aspects of commercialisation and technology transfer.

From 2004-2008, he was subsequently Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs and Research Liaison and was involved with linkages to national and international bodies and research pooling initiatives between Universities such as The Northern Way Science Initiative..

Before moving to the Cookson Chair in1987, he was an undergraduate and post-graduate at Jesus College Cambridge (1st Class Hons: Materials Science), and became a Foundation Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Following tenure of an EPSRC Research Fellowship, he became a Lecturer in Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge in 1972.

Professor Page's primary research activities centre upon measuring and understanding the mechanical properties of very small volumes of materials, including electronic materials and various coated systems, using depth-sensing 'nanoindentation' and high-resolution microscopies and tribology.

Professor Page has served on a number of national and international Editorial Advisory Boards, on various Committees for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and, for 20 years, on the Ministry of Defence Scientific Advisory Council.

He has published extensively, is still a regular conference invited speaker in Europe and the USA (e.g. The Gordon Research Conference on Thin Film Mechanical Properties 2010), was the first non-US Chairman of the Gordon Conference on Tribology (2004), has given many presentations to schools and has also broadcast for BBC Radio 4 and the World service.