Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor CBE FREng (born 11 January 1948) has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford since October 2013. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-Chancellor at the University of York from 2002 to 2013, and prior to this he was Head of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford.. In September 2018 it was announced that Professor Cantor is to step down as VC at the end of the 2018/19 academic year He is acknowledged as a world authority on materials manufacturing and is a former Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In taking up the position in Bradford, he replaced Mark Cleary.