Professor Susan Gourvenec

Qualifications

BEng, PhD

Education

• 1998
  PhD, University of Southampton, UK, Geotechnical Research Group
• 1983
  BEng Civil Engineering (1st class Honours) Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK.

Awards

• 2010
  Teaching Excellence – Postgraduate Research Supervision, UWA Award.
• 2008
  ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, Excellent Paper Award.
• 2008
  ARC Discovery Project Shallow foundation solutions for offshore oil and gas facilities. $480,000. International Science Linkages Competitive Grants Scheme; 2nd International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG).
• 2005
  Int.l Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Young Member Award.
• 2004
  Australia and New Zealand Joint Societies Award.
• 2003
  Australian Representative to International Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference.
• 1997
  British Geotechnical Society Cooling Prize Finalist.
• 1997
  UK representative to European Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference.
• 1994
  Thomas Hawkesley Prize (London University).
• 1994
  Institution of Civil Engineers Annual Award.
• 1993
  Drapers’ Company Prize (London University).

Employment

• 2001
  Professor, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Western Australia, Perth (previously Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor), 11 yrs
• 2008
  Principal Engineer, Advanced Geomechanics (part-time), 4 yrs
• 2000
  Research Associate, Geotechnical Group, University of Cambridge, UK, 3 yrs

Editorial Boards of International Journals

• Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering

Research Interests

• Soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering
• Offshore foundation systems
• Geotechnical centrifuge modelling
• Numerical modelling