MICHAEL KHOR

Professor Michael Khor is Director, Talent Recruitment and Career Support (TRACS) Office & Bibliometrics Analysis at NTU, Singapore since 2018. He is concurrently a Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He served as Director, Research Support Office (RSO) from 2011 to 2018 and Associate Provost (Research) from 2009 to 2011, and thereafter re-designated as Director, Research Support Office & Bibliometrics Analysis, his current appointment. From 2008 to 2009, he was seconded to the National Research Foundation (NRF) as Director (Projects). He joined NTU (then NTI) in June 1989. Professor Khor’s research interests are in advanced materials processing; thermal sprayed coatings; spark plasma sintering, nano-bioceramics and nano-composites for artificial cornea implants, orthopaedic and dental implants. Since 2011, he has embarked on research and analysis into research collaboration networks, research topics analysis, development of research performance metrics for universities and international collaborations of global young universities. He has published over 370 journal and conference papers and edited several international conference proceedings. Several institutions have invited him as Visiting Professor and Scientist over the years, these include the Japan National Defense Academy; Japan National Institutes of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Hanyang University and Zhejiang University. A Fellow of the Institute of Materials; Minerals and Mining (IOM3), UK, he received the IOM3 “Overseas Medal” in 2008.