Professor D. Vaughan Griffiths, PhD, PE, FICE, Dist.M.ASCE

Vaughan is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines and a Civil Engineer, whose interests lie in application of finite element and risk assessment methodologies in geotechnical engineering. He has co-authored three books that have gone into multiple and foreign language editions, and his numerous research papers include some of the most highly cited in the geotechnical engineering research literature.

Vaughan’s Fulbright Distinguished Chair at The University of Newcastle will include research with Professor Anna Giacomini and colleagues on risk assessment of offshore wind turbine foundations and rock instability on coastal paths exacerbated by environmental change.