Prof. Trevor Page (FREng, ScD) is Emeritus Professor of Materials Engineering at Newcastle University and remains a Senior Research Investigator in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials. From 1987 to 2008 he held the Cookson Group Chair of Materials Engineering, and he served as Head of Materials Engineering & Metallurgy before becoming University Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in August 2000 — later the first Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs and Research Liaison, a post he held until 2008 [reference:0].
He read Materials Science at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 1967, and completed his PhD in the Department of Metallurgy & Materials Science on field-ion microscopy of dilute binary solid solutions. He then held an SERC Fellowship followed by a University Lectureship at Cambridge, and was a Foundation Fellow of Robinson College. He moved to the Cookson Chair at Newcastle in 1987, and was awarded a Doctor of Science by Cambridge in 2012 [reference:2].
His research centres on measuring and understanding the mechanical properties of very small volumes of materials — particularly the nucleation and behaviour of property-controlling defects and the response of thin-coated systems — using depth-sensing nanoindentation and high-resolution microscopies . He has authored over 200 papers spanning the microstructural control of ceramic properties, surface engineering, ceramic tribology and nanoindentation testing, and has held visiting positions at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory [reference:5].
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007 and is a Chartered Engineer, having previously been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Ceramics (1986), the Institute of Materials (1991) and the Institute of Physics (2002) . He was the first non-US Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Tribology in 2004, has served on the editorial advisory boards of the *Journal of Materials Science* (Managing Editorial Board), *Journal of Microscopy*, *Scanning* and the *Transactions & Journal of the British Ceramic Society*, and chaired the Materials Technology Board of the Ministry of Defence's Defence Scientific Advisory Committee from 1994 to 1998 . He is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) .
Prof. Page's career sits at the point where fundamental microstructure meets engineering application. His work on nanoindentation did not simply adopt an emerging technique — it helped establish how the method should be interpreted, what its limits are, and how contact damage in brittle materials should be measured. His insistence on linking measured hardness back to the underlying defect structures and deformation mechanisms is precisely the kind of rigour that distinguishes a well-founded materials paper from a data report.
That same rigour carried into his institutional roles. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Newcastle, and as a long-serving member and chairman of national materials committees, he spent years judging what research is worth backing. We are grateful that he now brings that judgement — and an editor's eye from his years on the *Journal of Materials Science* board — to the manuscripts APC reviews.
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