Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
With a passion for engineering future cities and the infrastructure systems that serve them, Chris’s research focusses on sustainability, resilience, liveability, and smartness in cities. He explores the use of underground space to relieve pressures on the surface, he is interested in understanding and reducing / removing the disruption to city systems caused by engineered systems and engineering works to create and maintain them, and seeks to improve the urban metabolism of cities – all the flows into, around and out of the city, which include people, resources, goods and waste.