Terry Langdon has had a long association with the School of Engineering at USC having been appointed as an Associate Professor in 1971. He was promoted to Professor with tenure in 1976. Currently, he holds appointments in the departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Earth Sciences at USC.

Professor Langdon has served in professorial appointments at many institutions including the University of Melbourne, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, the University of New South Wales and the Danish Technical University. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. At the present time, he is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyushu University (Japan) and in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton (U.K.).

Professor Langdon has received numerous honors including a D.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and election to Fellow in the American Ceramic Society, ASM International, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. In 1994 he was only the fourth foreigner to be appointed as an Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Bashkortostan Republic (Russia). This appointment involved participation in a special ceremony in Ufa, the capital city of the Bashkortostan Republic.

More recently, he was awarded the Henry Marion Howe Medal by ASM International at their annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the U.K. in 2002 and attended the inauguration ceremony in London in November of that year (USC News). The year of 2003 was especially noteworthy as Prof. Langdon was appointed the William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering at USC in July and in December he travelled to Moscow to be awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences. This was the 91st honorary doctorate awarded by the academy and the first awarded for materials research on metals.

Professor Langdon is a regular speaker at meetings and institutes around the world. He has given several special lectures including, most recently, the annual Tewkesbury Lecture in Engineering at the University of Melbourne in May 2003.

His extensive research at USC, combined with world-wide collaborations, has led to more than 600 scientific papers including a large number of publications in the leading materials journals. He was ranked by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, U.S.A.) as #3 world-wide for the total number of High Impact Papers published in Materials Science during the period 1981-2001, where High Impact Papers are defined as the 200 most cited papers in Materials Science for each separate year. Currently, he is ranked by ISI as #2 world-wide for publishing in Materials Science based on the numbers of citations received for papers published during the period 1998-2002. He is also listed on the internet website for Highly Cited researchers in the subject category of Materials Science (www.ISIHighlyCited.com).

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