Distinguished ProfessorMark Stewart

Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Built Infrastructure Resilience at UTS, Mark Stewart is an international leader in risk assessment, public policy decision making, and protective infrastructure for extreme hazards. He is a leading expert in engineering risk assessment and probabilistic methods applied to a wide range of infrastructure/engineering systems, including climate change.

Consulted by Australian and US defence and terrorism experts, he has presented cutting edge risk analyses, including rational expenditure of public funds. His ideas have been presented in five seminal books and many scientific and engineering papers, and has brought engineering and scientific expertise into the public policy domain.

He has more than 40 years of experience in probabilistic risk and vulnerability assessment of infrastructure and security systems that are subject to man-made and natural hazards.

Prior to joining UTS in 2022 Mark was Professor and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at The University of Newcastle.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Structural Safety, the leading journal in structural risk and reliability analysis.

Mark has received significant Australian Research Council support to develop probabilistic risk-modelling techniques for infrastructure subject to military and terrorist explosive blasts and cost-benefit assessments of protective measures for critical infrastructure
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Mark recently led a consortium of five universities in Australia for the $3.5 million CSIRO Flagship Cluster Fund project Climate Adaptation Engineering for Extreme Events (CAEx). The CAEx Cluster assessed the impact of climate change on damage and safety risks to infrastructure, and assessed the cost-effectiveness of engineering adaptation strategies.

Mark also has significant expertise in time and spatial dependent reliability analysis of new and existing deteriorating structures such as bridges and buildings. He is also a leading investigator with the reliability-based assessment and calibration of the Australian Masonry and Concrete Structures Codes.

He was awarded a BE(Civil) from Monash University in 1984, and a PhD from The University of Newcastle in 1988.

Mark is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, Fellow of the Institutuon of Structural Engineers, Fellow of the International Association of Protective Structures, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.