engineer professor civil engineer
He read engineering at the University of Cambridge. He then studied for a Master of Science at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and then did research in soil mechanics at Cambridge which lead to the award of a Doctor of Philosophy.
He currently holds the Chair of Soil Mechanics at the University of Cambridge and his is the Director of the Schofield Centrifuge Centre for Geotechnical Processes and Construction. He published extensively in the field of fundamental soil mechanics, geotechnical centrifuge testing and geotechnical design. Foreign the latter topic, he introduced the mobilisable strength design (MSD) method.
In 2012, he was invited to deliver the prestigious 52nd Rankine Lecture, titled "Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering".
