Rate My Professor Leroy Gardner

Leroy Gardner is Professor of Structural Engineering at Imperial College London, serving as Head of the Structural Engineering Section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. He earned his BEng, MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1999, and PhD in 2002 from Imperial College London. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng, elected 2020), he is also a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and the Institution of Structural Engineers (FIStructE). Gardner leads the Steel Structures Research Group, conducting research on the stability, design, and fabrication of steel, stainless steel, and other metallic structures. His work extends to metal additive manufacturing in construction, including characterisation of the world's first 3D printed steel pedestrian bridge. He represents the United Kingdom on international standardisation committees and has underpinned developments in structural design codes in Europe, the USA, and the Far East.