Our Members

The membership of the Academia NDT International comprises Honorary, Full, Associate and Associate Junior members. At present there are 9 Honorary Members, 67 Full members (including 8 Council Members and 2 Co-opted Council Members), 2 Associate members and 2 Associate Junior members.

The Honorary members are as follows:

• Professor Leon O Chua, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Dr J M Farley, Past Chair, ICNDT
• Professor Riccardo Giacconi, Johns Hopkins University, Nobel Prize 2002
• Prof V V Klyuev, Research Institute of Introscopy, Russia
• Prof Norbert Kroo, Central Research Institute for Physics of Hungarian Academy of Science
• Yulij Viktorovich Lange, Spectrum, Moscow, Russia
• Professor Morio Onoe, University of Tokyo
• Academician Boris E Paton, E O Paton Welding Institute, Ukraine
• Professor Antonino Zichichi, University of Bologna, Italy

The Academia is proud to have three Nobel Prize winners among its Honorary members –  Professor Riccardo Giacconi, who presented a special lecture at the Academia meeting in Shanghai in 2008, and Professor Antonino Zichichi, one of the originators of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, who presented a special lecture at the Academia General Assembly meeting in Brescia in May 2009.
Three previous Honorary Members of the Academia with Nobel Prizes have sadly passed away - Professor Jerome Karle (Chemistry, 1985), Sr Harry Kroto (Chemistry, 1996) and Professor Peter Ware Higgs (Physics, 2013), who presented a special lecture at the Academia meeting in Prague in 2014.

Academia NDT International is deeply saddened to record the death of Honorary Member Dr Sotirios J Vahaviolos on 6 February 2025. Read the Tribute here.