Robert Young - Curriculum Vitae#

PRESENT APPOINTMENT: Professor of Polymer Science and Technology, University of Manchester
Founding Head of the School of Materials (2004-9)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BA, Materials Science, University of Cambridge, St. John's College, 1969.
  
• MA, University of Cambridge, 1973.
  
• PhD, 'Deformation Mechanisms in Crystalline Polymers', University of Cambridge, 1973.
  

ELECTED FELLOWSHIP OF ESTEEMED SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES\ \

• 2006 Elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering
  
• 2013 Elected to the Royal Society
  

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Fellow of the Institute of Physics - Chartered Physicist
  
• Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining - Chartered Engineer
  

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• 2 Research Monographs and 351 Papers in refereed Journals.
  
• ISI HighlyCited.com® 2006 - One of only 18 UK scientists listed for citations to papers published in Materials Science
  
• ISI HighlyCited.com® 2015 - 7 Highly-cited journal papers
  
• Google Scholar: 400 publications listed with 41914 citations, H-index = 99 (January 2024)
  (http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=CTAnsf8AAAAJ&hl=en)

PUBLICATION OF TEXTBOOKS

‘Introduction to Polymers’, R.J. Young, Chapman and Hall, London, 1981 (Sold 30,000 copies)

‘Introduction to Polymers’, 2nd Edition, R.J. Young and P.A. Lovell, Chapman and Hall, London, 1991 (Sold 32,000 copies) 1460 citations – Google Scholar, April 2015

‘Introduction to Polymers’, 3rd Edition, by R.J. Young and P.A. Lovell, CRC Press, Boca Baton, Florida, (Published June 2011)