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Authorised form of nameSloan; Scott William (1954 - 2019)
Dates1954 - 2019
NationalityAustralian
Place of birthMildura, Victoria, Australia
Date of birth02/07/1954
Date of death23/04/2019
Research fieldCivil engineering
ActivityEducation:
Monash University (1975) BE (Hons I), (1978) MEngSci; University of Cambridge (1979) MPhil, (1981) PhD
Career:
Lecturer, University of Newcastle (1984); Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle (1989); Director, Geotechnical Research Group, University of Newcastle (1990); Associate Professor, University of Newcastle (1993); Professor, University of Newcastle (1998-2018); Federation Fellow, Australian Research Council (2004-2009); Deputy Head, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle (2004); Director, Geosential Software, a division of Newcastle Innovation (2006); Director, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modelling, Newcastle (2006); Visiting Senior Principal Coffey Geotechnics (2007); Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle (2008); Australian Laureate Fellow, Australian Research Council (2009-2014); Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Geotechnical Science and Engineering (2011-2018)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/04/2015
Age at election60
OtherInfoScott Sloan obtained BE (1976) and MEngSci (1978) Degrees in Civil Engineering at Monash University before completing MPhil and PhD (1982) degrees in the same field at the University of Cambridge. He was then a Rouse Ball Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge for a year before moving to New College Oxford where he was the W W Spooner Junior Research Fellow. In 1984 he accepted a Lectureship in Civil Engineering at the University of Newcastle Australia. He was the founding Director of the 180-strong ARC Centre of Excellence in Geotechnical Science and Engineering as well as the 70-strong Priority Research Centre in Geotechnical and Materials Modelling at Newcastle. These Centres are focused on the geotechnical aspects of energy and transport infrastructure, and combine advanced computational modelling, field measurements, laboratory testing, and physical modelling to develop more cost-effective design procedures for the engineering profession. Scott was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2007 and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2000.
Virtual International Authority Filehttps://viaf.org/viaf/2146825622807632491
CodeNA9968
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/2015/40Sloan, Scott William: certificate of election to the Royal Society30 April 2015
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