Walter L. Bradley received his B.S. in Engineering Science and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Texas in Austin. He taught for eight years as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines before assuming a position as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in 1976. His research area is fracture, fracture mechanics, life-time prediction, and failure analysis. He has received over $5,000,000 in research grants and published over 125 technical articles. He is an elected research fellow of the American Society of Materials. He has received five college level research awards and one national research award in recognition of his research contributions. He also served as Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, a department of 67 faculty and 1500 students and as Director of the Polymer Technology Center at TAMU. Dr. Bradley is currently working with Baylor University's engineering department and is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity Information and Design

Walter Bradley has also performed seminal research in the origin of life, having published journal articles and co-authoring the popular "The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories" which remains the best-selling advanced level text on the origin of life.

Walter Bradley