News story The Prime Minister has reappointed Professor Brian Cantor CBE and Lopa Patel MBE as Trustees of the Science Museum Group Professor Cantor CBE and Lopa Patel MBE have been reappointed by the Prime Minister as Trustees of the Science Museum Group for a four year period from 1 December 2020 to 30 November 2024. From: 1 April 2021 Brian Cantor is Professor of Materials at Oxford and Brunel Universities and an Editor of the journal Progress in Materials Science. He has published over 300 books and papers. He invented the field of High Entropy Alloys and discovered “Cantor alloys”. In the recent past, he has been Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Bradford and York, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Oxford, a research scientist at GE Labs in the USA, a consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has worked at other universities such as Sussex, Northeastern, Banaras, Washington State, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute, and chaired or been on boards such as the Marshall Aid Commission, the UK Universities Pensions Forum, and Bradford, Leeds and York Local Economic Partnerships (LEPs). He founded, chaired and built up the Begbroke Science Park, the Heslington East Campus, the Hull-York Medical School, the Institute for Effective Education, the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, the National Science Learning Centre, and the World Technology Universities Network.