If you want to know more about how piled foundations work, or the design of anchoring systems for offshore facilities operating in water depths of over one kilometre, then ask Winthrop Professor Mark F. Randolph.
Winthrop Professor Randolph is the Director of the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre, and leads an active research group in geotechnical engineering, comprising some 40 staff and research students. He has published more than 300 papers in international journals and conferences, and supervised more than 40 PhD students.
Winthrop Professor Randolph interacts closely with the offshore industry, particularly through his role as a Director of specialist geotechnical consultants, Advanced Geomechanics.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK).
Early in 2003 he gave the 43rd Rankine Lecture for the British Geotechnical Association in London, and is currently organising an International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG).
