Tim Newson is a Professor and research director in the Geotechnical Research Centre at Western University. He has 30+ years’ experience of industry and academic projects in civil engineering for the oil/gas, mining and renewable energy sectors, and has conducted both consulting and research in Europe, Australasia, Asia and the Americas. He is a former Vice President for North America for the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. His research interests and consulting activities include in situ testing, constitutive modelling of soils, wind engineering, buried structures, centrifuge and laboratory testing techniques, dynamic and cyclic soil-structure interaction, contaminant transport through soils and offshore foundations.
Professor of Civil Engineering, Western University