Brian Keith TannerCPhys, FRSA, FInstP, FHEA is a British physicist, currently Emeritus Professor of Physics and former Dean of Knowledge Transfer at Durham University.[5]
Tanner is best known for research and business applications of X-ray diffraction topography.[2] Tanner has worked at the Department of Physics at Durham University since 1973, where he was made Professor of Physics in 1996 and was the University Dean of Knowledge Transfer from 2008 to 2016 until his retirement.[3] He has published over 375 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and 4 books.[8] In 1978 he co-founded Bede Scientific Instruments Ltd, since 2008 owned by Jordan Valley Semiconductors.[3] From 2003 to 2015 he was a non-executive director of radiation detection solutions company Kromek, supplying medical imaging, civil nuclear, security screening and homeland security markets.[9]
Professor Tanner was the first Director of the North East Centre for Science Enterprise, and served as chief scientific advisor of the North East Technology Park (NETPark) and chaired the County Durham Economic Partnership.[10][11]
Married to Ruth Tanner, formerly a Trustee and Deputy President of the Workers' Educational Association[12] and currently secretary of the Cobweb Orchestra, about which she published a history in 2013.[13] He has two sons: Rob is a teacher and Director of Cross-Curricular Learning at St Albans School [14] and Tom is a climate change academic at SOAS University of London.[15]
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