Name Robert Baron | Role Baron Mair | |
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Born 20 April 1950 (age 74) ( 1950-04-20 ) Fields Geotechnical engineeringTunnel design & construction Institutions University of CambridgeInstitution of Civil EngineersCrossrailGeotechnical Consulting Group (GCG)Laing O'RourkeScott Wilson GroupThe Leys School Thesis Centrifugal modelling of tunnel construction in soft clay (1979) Notable awards Royal Society, Order of the British Empire | ||
Doctoral advisor Andrew N. Schofield | ||
Robert James Mair, Baron Mair, CBE, FRS, FICE, FREng (born 20 April 1950) is a geotechnical engineer and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering. He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, from 2001 to 2011 and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001. In 2014 he was elected a vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and on 1 November will become the Institution's President for 2017-18, its two hundredth anniversary year. On 13 October 2015 his appointment to be a peer in the House of Lords was announced. He sits as a Crossbencher.
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Education
Mair was educated at St Faith's and The Leys School in Cambridge and went on to study Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge gaining a MA degree in 1975 and a PhD degree in 1979.
Honours and awards
Mair was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1992, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. Mair delivered the 46th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours. Mair has been awarded numerous research grants by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
On 29 October 2015, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Mair, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire.
Personal
Robert is the son of the late William Austyn Mair, Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge 1952–1983.