Distinguished ProfessorBuddhima Indraratna

Distinguished Professor Buddhima Indraratna is a Member of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sceinces and Engineering (FTSE) and Royal Society of NSW (FRSN). He has published over 1100 scholarly articles including 14 Books and 530 peer-reviewed journals, and amongst the most highly cited geotechnical engineers in the world (H-Index = 101; Citations @ 38,000). He has successfully supervised over 150 young professionals, i.e. PhD (>90), Masters (>30) and Postdoc fellows (>45), and secured more than AUD 40 million in external grants over the past 3 decades including over 35 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants.  he was a pioneer of Australia's 1st CRC for Railway Engineering, ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnics, and Founding Director of ARC Industrial Trannsformation Training Centre, ITTC-Rail. His national and international reputation is highlighted by many accolades including the most prestigious International Civil Engineer Award (2023) hosted by the Jose E. Ibarra Foundation, Madrid; 2024 Sir John Holland Civil Engineer of the Year (c/o Engineers Australia), two of ISSMGE's Honour Lectures (1st Proctor lecture, 2016, and 4th Menard Lecture, 2017) AGS EH Davis Lecture 2010, and several ICE (UK) awards including Telford Premium and Sir Visvesvaraya Prize, Robert Quigley Awards from the Canadian Geotechnical Society and 2024 Thomas Keefer Medal and 2025 Donald Stanley from the Canadian Civil Engineering Society.