Professor Mark Randolph

Qualifications

Education

• 1994
  FIEAust
• 1987
  Chartered Practising Engineer, CPEng
• 1978
  PhD, Cambridge University
• 1978
  MA, Oxford University
• 1973
  BA (1st Class Hons, Engineering Science), Oxford University

Awards and Honours

• 2013
  WA Scientist of the Year
• 2013
  Australian Gas Technology Innovation Award
• 2013
  2nd McClelland Lecturer, (Offshore Geotechnics) Int. Soc. for Soil Mech. and Found. Eng.
• 2012
  The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Oration, Australia
• 2011
  Fellow, Royal Society of London
• 2011
  David Hislop award, Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
• 2010
  ASCE OTC Hall of Fame award
• 2008
  William Mong Distinguished Lecturer, University of Hong Kong
• 2005
  Poulos Lecture, Sydney Chapter of Australian Geomechanics Society
• 2005
  British Geotechnical Association Prize (Institution of Civil Engineers, UK)
• 2005
  John Booker Medal, Int. Assoc. for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
• 2005
  Federation Fellowship, Australian Research Council
• 2004
  Geotechnical Research Medal (Institution of Civil Engineers, UK)
• 2003
  1st C W Lovell Lecture, Purdue University
• 2003
  Centenary Medal, Australia
• 2003
  Rankine Lecture, British Geotechnical Association
• 2002
  Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
• 2001
  Gabriel Kassiff Memorial Lecture, Technion, Israel
• 2000
  XVII Manuel Rocha Lecture, Portugese Geotechnical Society
• 2000
  John Henry Garrood King Medal (Institution of Civil Engineers, UK)
• 2000
  Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
• 1999
  Distinguished Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore
• 1998
  Mathis Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1997
  E H Davis Lecturer, Australian Geomechanics Society
• 1996
  ARC Special Research Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, 1997 -
• 1993
  Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• 1982
  British Geotechnical Society Prize (Institution of Civil Engineers, UK)
• 1977
  Research Fellowship, St. John's College, Cambridge
• 1975
  Cooling Prize for young engineers (British Geotechnical Society, UK)
• 1973
  Maurice Lubbock Memorial Prize (Oxford University)
• 1973
  Institution of Civil Engineers Prize (Oxford University)

Employment

• 2010
  Fugro Chair in Geotechnics, University of Western Australia
• 2005
  ARC Federation Fellow, University of Western Australia (to 2010)
• 1997
  Director, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Western Australia (to 2005))
• 1994
  Director, Advanced Geomechanics, Perth (continuing)
• 1990
  Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Western Australia (continuing)
• 1989
  Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Western Australia (to 1990)
• 1986
  Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Western Australia (to 1989)
• 1978
  Assistant (78-83) Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University (to 1986)
• 1977
  Research (1977-8) then Teaching Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge University (to 1986)
• 1973
  Higher (1975) Scientific Officer, Geotechnics , Building Research Establishment (to 1977)

Editorial Boards of International Journals

• International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Co-Editor
• Chief, ICE Publishing (2001-5)
• International Journal for Numerical & Analalytical Methods
• Geomechanics, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (1984-)
• Geotechnique, ICE Publishing (1996-2002, 2012-)
• Computers & Geotechnics, Elsevier (1998-)
• International Journal for Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (2001-)
• Soils and Foundations, Japanese Geotechnical Society (2000-)
• Canadian Geotechnical Journal, NRC Research Press (2002-5)
• Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (2003-8)
• Italian Geotechnical Journal, Patron Editore (1998-2010)

Research Interests

• Analytical and design of pile foundations
• Offshore foundation design
• Physical testing
• Anchors and pipelines
• Novel in situ testing tools based on T-bar and ball penetrometers
• Plasticity theory applied to geotechnical design