Personal Info

E-mail: alan.cocks(at)eng.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 283490

Academic Background:

BSc in General Engineering, University of Leicester (1977); PhD, Cambridge, under the supervision of Mike Ashby (1981); Research Associate, Leicester; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1984-85); Lecturer in Engineering, Leicester; Lecturer in Engineering and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge (1990-96); became Professor of Engineering at Leicester in 1996; Head of Department (2004-05). In 2006 he was appointed to the Professorship in Materials Engineering at the University of Oxford and elected to a fellowship at St Anne’s College.

Research Interests:

Micromechanical and computational modelling of the deformation and failure processes of engineering materials, particularly at elevated temperatures, and the modelling of material processing procedures. He is on the advisory board of the European Journal of Mechanics – A/Solids.