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Professor Helen Valerie Atkinson, BA, MA, PhD, Drhc, FREng, CEng, FIMMM, FIMechE, DIC Head of Mechanics of Materials Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, University Rd., Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. Hva2@le.ac.uk. Tel:00 44 116 2231019. Academic Qualifications and Career: 1978-81 First class degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Cambridge University 1981-87 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell, Scientific Officer then Higher Scientific Officer then Senior Scientific Officer. Includes period working for one of the Directors on strategic business planning. Member of the Institute of Metals 1985 (now the IoMMM), Chartered Engineer 1986. 1983-86 PhD with Imperial College, carried out as part of work at Harwell, on ‘Evolution of Grain Structure in Nickel Oxide Scales’ 1987-89 Senior Lecturer Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) 1989-02 Lecturer then Senior Lecturer then Reader in Engineering Materials at Sheffield University (maternity leaves 1991, 1992, 1993, worked half-time 1991-96, 60% of full-time 1996-2002). 2002- Professor in Metals Processing in the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester. Head of the Mechanics of Materials Group from 2004. 80% of full-time 2002-5 and full-time 2005 onwards. With the support of colleagues, I have built the Group so it now consists of two other Professors, two Readers, two Lecturers, an Experimental Officer, 2 research associates, 20 PhD students and a number of academic visitors. From 2008, at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor, I chaired the ￡17M project to redevelop our Percy Gee Students’ Union. The project was completed to time and to budget and opened formally in March 2011. Prizes and Awards: 1980-81 University and College Scholarships and Awards 1985 Plowden Prize from British Nuclear Energy Society for best paper by author under 27 on topic of relevance to nuclear power industry 2002 Williams Prize for a paper of particular