Mark Cassidy
Mark is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Chair of Offshore Foundations and Director of the Centre for Offshore Foundations at The University of Western Australia.
He is also the Deputy Director of the recently established Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering.
Mark graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Queensland in 1994, and as a Rhodes Scholar, attained a doctorate in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 1999.
His research interests are in offshore geotechnics and engineering, predominantly developing wave-structure-soil interaction models for the analysis of oil and gas platforms, mobile drilling rigs, anchors and pipelines.
Mark has published over 190 refereed journal and conference paper and jointly holds two international patents with Singaporean mobile jack-up builders Keppel Offshore and Marine.
He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and Engineers Australia.
