Professor John Morton
Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering
Professor John Morton
Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering
John studied Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and did his doctorate here at Oxford. After a Lectureship in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College he moved to the USA, first as a Senior Research Associate at NASA and then as Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. John returned to the UK to become Director of Structural Materials at the Defence Research Agency which was eventually privatised to become QinetiQ where he was Chief Operating Officer of the Future Systems and Technology Division. Following a subsequent appointment as Chief Executive of the Engineering and Technology Board, John returned to Oxford where he now tutors undergraduate engineers.
