Professor Gopal Madabhushi FREng

Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Group, University of Cambridge; Director, Schofield Centre for Geotechnical and Construction Modelling

Professor Gopal Madabhushi is an international expert on earthquake geotechnics, developing unique experimental modelling facilities at Cambridge. These have advanced the understanding of earthquake effects on soils and structures, especially seismic liquefaction, through two textbooks, over 190 journal papers and 350 conference papers.

He has received the Institution of Civil Engineers T.K.Hsieh Award three times, its Bill Curtin Medal, and the British Geotechnical Association Medal. He is a longstanding member of the Society of Earthquakes and Civil Engineering Dynamics and of the Institution of Structural Engineers Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team, which he led to evaluate the impact of the 2001 Bhuj earthquake in India.