Hubert Roy Evans FRICE FIStructE

FLSW The Learned Society of Wales ( Welsh: Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru) is a learned society and charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the Welsh natio ...

is a Welsh

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...

and academic. He is a native of Llandysul, in Ceredigion, Wales. A graduate of Swansea University (Wales) he became Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering at

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, where he spent 26 years of his career. He won international recognition as a

, receiving numerous awards (including the

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in 1980) and became a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

in 1992. Evans was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, for services to higher education. He served as Deputy Principal at

for four years before his appointment as the Vice Chancellor of the

University of Wales, Bangor Bangor University ( cy, Prifysgol Bangor) is a Public university, public university in Bangor, Gwynedd, Bangor, Wales. It received its Royal charter, Royal Charter in 1885 and was one of the founding institutions of the federal University of Wales ...

in 1995, retiring in 2004. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 1998/9. He is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110608032613/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/VCDPost.php.en * https://web.archive.org/web/20110608020446/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/vccbe.php.en {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Roy Welsh scholars and academics Welsh civil engineers Alumni of Swansea University Academics of Bangor University Academics of Cardiff University Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People from Ceredigion Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales