Professor Igor Guz, ERPe Director

Professor Igor Guz joined Heriot-Watt as the Executive Dean of Engineering & Physical Sciences from the University of Aberdeen where he started in 2002 as a Lecturer, becoming personal Chair in Engineering in 2007 and the Sixth Century Chair in Solid Mechanics in 2010. He served as Head of the School of Engineering in Aberdeen from 2013-2021, leading during a period of significant growth of its research and teaching activities and improvement in national and international rankings. Prior to joining Aberdeen, Igor worked at various positions in Vienna, Stuttgart, Paderborn, Cambridge, and Imperial College London. He was appointed as Extraordinary Professor at Pusan National University (South Korea) in 2018 and elected to the Fellowship of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in 2016. Since 2019 Igor has been Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Composites Letters.  

Igor's main research interests are in solid mechanics. His lifelong research in advanced anisotropic materials (particularly those with strong internal heterogeneities occurring at multiple scales), fracture mechanics, nanomaterials, vibrations control, coupled thermos-electro-mechanical problems has resulted in over 380 publications including 4 books and 160 journal papers. His fundamental contributions have been recognised by the award of the Prize of the Academia Europaea and The State Prize of Ukraine.