Education
Mair was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge and went on to study Engineering at, Cambridge gaining a Master of Arts degree in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1979.
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Robert Mair
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He is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering. He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 2001 to 2011 and a Fellow of Street John"s College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001. In 2014 he was elected a vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and is proposed to be the Institution"s President for 2017-2018, its two hundredth anniversary year.
On 13 October 2015 his appointment to be a peer in the House of Lords was announced.
He sits as a Crossbencher. Robert is the son of the late William Austyn Mair, Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge 1952–1983.
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Mair was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers) in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1992, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 2007. Mair delivered the 46th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 New Year Honours. Mair has been awarded numerous research grants by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). On 29 October 2015, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Mair, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire.
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Royal Society.
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