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.

Promoted to Professor at age 36—the youngest ever in Civil Engineering at Imperial College—Gardner previously served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, transforming his department's student satisfaction from the bottom to the top in the Faculty. He received the IABSE Prize in 2017 for outstanding contributions to structural engineering research. His prolific publication record includes highly cited works such as 'Metal 3D printing in construction: A review of methods, research, applications, opportunities and challenges' (2019), 'The use of stainless steel in structures' (2005), 'Stress-strain curves for hot-rolled steels' (2017), 'Description of stress-strain curves for stainless steel alloys' (2015), and 'Experiments on stainless steel hollow sections—Part 1: Material and cross-sectional behaviour' (2004), amassing over 33,000 citations. Gardner teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, provides specialist consultancy on steel structures, and delivers keynote lectures worldwide.