Awards

Dr. Sergei A. Shipilov is currently a consultant with Metallurgical Consulting Services and an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987. After obtaining his doctorate, he worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry as a research scientist, was founding director of the Laboratory for Physical and Chemical Research in Fracture and taught in the Faculty of Materials Science at Moscow State University. He moved to Canada in 1999, and then spent several years on faculty at the University of Calgary. The editor of the two-volume “Environment- Induced Cracking of Materials” (Elsevier, 2007), he has authored more than 80 refereed research papers and has given over 50 invited presentations, including seven plenary and keynote lectures at major conferences. He is active internationally, serving as advisor or invited lecturer on technical matters to research groups, government agencies, and companies in Belgium, Canada, China, Portugal, Russia and the USA. He has been a visiting professor of materials science and engineering at five universities around the world. In 2006, he served on the Nominating Committee of ASM International. He received the M. Brian Ives Lectureship Award of ASM International (2005), the Distinguished Service Award of NACE International (2007), and the ASM-IIM Visiting Lectureship Award (2007). He is listed in several biographical directories including “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,” “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.”