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Biography
Dr. Anthony Bunsell was born in England and completed all his formal education
there and obtained his PhD at the University of Manchester. He worked in industrial
research and development before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Sussex and then took up a full-time academic post. For 35 years, he was a research
professor in France responsible for studies in the fields of fiber reinforcements and fi-
ber composites at the Materials Centre of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, now called
Mines ParisTech. He remains as a consultant professor there in the fields of fibers
and fiber-reinforced composites. He has been invited as a visiting professor to a num-
ber of institutions including the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, and others across the world. He has authored more than 300 papers in in-
ternational scientific journals and produced 17 books on materials science, composites,
and fibers. He has received a number of rewards for his research and was the first per-
son to be made Life Fellow of the French Association for Composite Materials
(AMAC) and is one of the very few recipients of the title World Fellow of the Inter-
national Committee on Composite Materials.
