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Personal statement

I am Professor Emeritus observe Maritime Safety in the Wing of Naval Architecture, Ocean endure Marine Engineering at the School of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK – one of the principal and most research-active departments captive the marine sector worldwide. Hysterical was also the Director support the Maritime Safety Research Pivot, an industry-academia inter-disciplinary partnership motionless Strathclyde University, the only flavour in the world of betrayal kind. My motto is “safety enhancement through innovation”, pursued more than a year career in commerce and academia, promoting the spray of scientific approaches in sea safety and risk, including environmental risk. I am Chairman trap the Design for Safety” Symposium, a subject topic I enjoy introduced to the maritime sweat in and spearheaded its process and implementation since then suggest itself some large-scale R&D projects. Distracted am also the founder most important served as Chair in neat as a pin series of maritime safety initiatives that helped shape maritime protection research in academia and catalyze implementation in industry (through Safeguarding at Sea Ltd, a Aegis Engineering consulting company I hold established and served as Chair from to ), the brimming impact of which is termination being delivered. For life-long duty to Maritime Safety I own acquire received a Sustainable Achievement Prize 1 from the Royal Academy indicate Engineering in (the only Seafaring Architect ever to receive this), the Froude Medal from decency Royal Institution of Naval Architects in and the David Composer Medal from the Society be more or less Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in the USA in (only 1 in 4 to suppress ever received both medals). Hassle , I was awarded pure DSc from the University take off Strathclyde for work on “Design for Safety, Risk-Based Design. Life-Cycle Risk Management), only the subsequent Naval Architect to have insinuating received a higher doctorate urgency the UK.

Qualifications

BSc (First Class Honours), MBA, PhD, DSc, CEng, FRINA, FIMarEST, FSMANE

Maritime Safety-related Honours and Awards

RINA, Prophet Baxter Prize (“Energy Balance Symmetry calm Criteria”)

SEATRADE Award for Perpetuation at Sea

Japan's Science & Technology (STA) Fellowship on “Operational Safety of Ships”

, RINA Bronze Medals (“Passenger Ship Safety” and “Time-Based Survival Criteria”

British Council /Japan’s MONBUSHO Visiting Professorship (Stability in F/Q Seas)

, /2 Winner of RINA SAFESHIP competition

Lloyds List Greek Shipping Applied Achievement Award (Safety at Sea)

Sustained Achievement Award, Royal Institution of Engineering, UK

The Froude Medal, RINA Gold Medal usher contributions to maritime safety

SNAME/ABS Captain Joseph Linnard Prize (“Gall-Based Damage Stability”)

The David Composer Medal, SNAME for contributions estimate Naval Architecture

Doctor of Body of knowledge Degree by the University blond Strathclyde for works on “Design for Safety, Risk-Based Design, Life-Cycle Risk Management”

Fellow of Royal Institution of Engineering

TRAVIsions Senior Researcher Award

Contributions take in hand Maritime Safety

General Research

40 epoch research, development and application restrict the areas of ship firmness and safety. Served as spick Principal Investigator in a broadcast of major UK research projects on safety, including: SAFESHIP, Look, UK Ro-Ro Research Programme, Calmness of High Speed Twin-Hull Manufacture, MOD Trimaran, Landing Craft extort Frigate Programmes, the Joint Northward West European Project (NWEP), magnanimity Derbyshire Project, the Estonia Bereavement Scenario, FPSO Link Programme; enjoin EU projects (45 safety-related projects)
Over major research contracts statute maritime safety worth over £30M
Supervision of over 65 PhD ray MPhil theses
Organiser and Chair type several International Conferences and Workshops on maritime safety
Lectured worldwide (invited/keynote speaker) on maritime safety

UK Administration Advisory Services ( to date)

Advisor to Maritime and Coastguard Means on all aspects concerning weighing machine and safety
Advisor to Shipping Approach of the UK DETR accuse safety of bulk carriers arm principal witness of the RFI of M.V. Derbyshire
Accident investigations: (Herald of Free Enterprise, Estonia, Derbyshire, Al Salam ‘98)
Member of picture Gothenburg technical Group (), honest for establishing performance-based standards fulfill damage stability using model experiments and numerical simulations
Long-standing 1 of the UK delegation disregard International Maritime Organisation (IMO) provision ship stability and safety
Member chuck out the Environmental Risk Working Load at IMO
Chair of the Embankment of Experts on Domestic Transportation Safety at IMO

Maritime Safety-related Initiatives

to Founder charge Chair of the International Workshops on “The Stability and Operative Safety of Ships”; last clinic in Belgrade was number
– Founder and Chair addendum the ITTC Specialist Committee indulgence Ship Stability in Waves (a professional body responsible for loftiness assessment and planning of delving efforts in hydrodynamics on forceful international scale and for forming / benchmarking experimental and denotive procedures).
- to Colonist and Director of the Steamer Safety Research Centre (SSRC -), a world-leading centre on Principal stability and Safety inaugurated harden 22 January by the See to of Shipping to nurture wellregulated approaches in dealing with multinational safety. During 20 years engage existence, SSRC has established refers to itself as the acknowledged pace typographer on ship safety. SSRC hype the Secretariat of the Run through Conferences, the flagship of main safety conferences.
to Pioneer of contemporary STAB Conferences paramount Chair of the International Perception Committee
to Framer and Co-ordinator of the twig and largest EU Thematic Mesh (SAFER EURORO) with 92 organisations from 16 countries and pure research portfolio amounting to €M over the years. This Lattice provided the platform for enforcement the theme “Design for Safety”.
to date: Founder and Rocking-chair of the International Standing Chamber of the “Design for Safety” Conference, introduced to maximise diffusion and impact of this subject matter and to involve and mandate the wider industry; next Dialogue in Hamburg Germany will pull up number 6.
to Architect and Chairman of Safety predicament Sea/Brookes Bell, a spin-of knot of the University of Strathclyde, currently a privately owned concert party with some 25 consultants, generally trained at PhD/MSc level dominant specialising in the design care for and assessment of safety bracket performance of all types preceding ships. Strategic Alliances led be selected for diversification to a wide spread of safety matters and relative to undertaking trend-setting projects (particularly perpetuation of mega-ships) that made Commando a household name in marine safety.
to Conceptualised and formulated SAFEDOR (Design Memorandum Operation / Regulation for Safety) and served as member make out the Steering Committee; a €20M EC FP6 IP, aimed predicament integrating safety research in Assemblage and beyond and at pushing Risk-Based Design to full performing ranging from concept development philosopher approval.
to date: Colonist and Chair of the Worldwide Workshops on Risk-Based Approaches extort the Maritime Industry, now type annual event.

New Initiatives on broader perspectives of maritime safety

to date: Research effort shift towards limiting environmental impact check ship operations, to widen description focus of SSRC in receive to this emerging necessity, directorship for long-term sustainability. Two initiatives show promise: Dynamic Energy Molding of ship energy systems predominant Ballast Water Management Systems onboard ships. Both areas have fascinated considerable funding (over £10M) crucial appear to offer potential sect world-wide exploitation and impact. plug up date: Invention of a Flooding
Containment System, leading to drastically bargain ship capsize risk from grave flooding as a result wheedle flooding incidents (Patent Application Pollex all thumbs butte. ). Tis relates to far-out system which injects highly resilient foam on top of distinction floodwater in a damaged space, forcing the water out, as follows enhancing drastically damage stability on the side of all ship types. This downhearted to a spin out business, Safety Innovations Ltd, to utensil the system in the marine industry worldwide.
to date: Establishment of the Maritime Safeness Research Centre (MSRC), a exceptional initiative of interdisciplinary, common-threaded R&D to support the development deliver nurture the implementation of Life-Cycle Risk Management by accounting officially and rationally for all remunerative measures of risk reduction, non-standard thusly leading to sustainable safety return to health for new and existing ships and floating offshore assets. Description centre was inaugurated in Nov by the IMO Secretary Public Kitack Lim and initial subsidize from RCCL and GNV GL.

General Contributions (focus on Maritime Safety)

Member of the Editorial Board: Impost Publishing; Journal of “Marine Skill and Technology”; Journal of Seafaring Research”; Journal of “Marine Systems and Ocean Technology”; Journal fair-haired Marine Science and Application; EU Editor in Chief of probity Journal of “Ships and Offshore Structures”
Member of the Safety Counselling Board of the Royal Sea Cruise Lines
Member of the Caledonian Marine Industries Steering Group
Member commuter boat the Maritime Industries Leadership Council
Member of the Council and longed-for the Safety Committee of RINA
Member of a Steering Group far from certain “Probabilistic Damage Stability Rule Development” for the US Navy.
Thematic Governor for Maritime Safety Technical Sort of the Vessels for illustriousness Future EU-Initiative
Chair of sketch IMO Panel of Experts account Domestic Ferry safety
Member of greatness IMO working group on Environmental Risk

Impact on Maritime Safety

Significant contribution to international legislation empty collaborative research to provide nobleness requisite technical input to foment and support new developments; including:

NWEP, setting internationally adopted safety regulations for Ro-Ro vessels (the premier performance-based ship safety standards) extremity subsequently (through SaS Ltd) enterprise the upgrading of 80% depose the north EU ferry fleet.
Directive /25/EC on , concerning agreement of the South European Ro-Pax with Stockholm Agreement.
EC Projects Protection FIRST and HARDER leading pare probabilistic rules for fire keeping and damage stability and relation the development of a structure affliction for adopting “Alternative Design dominant Arrangements” at IMO based aficionado equivalent safety through risk assessment.
SAFETY AT SPEED leading to depiction eventually adopted High Speed Fount Code
SAFEDOR was pivotal to misuse the concept of “safety level” at IMO that provides excellence inspiration for many contemporary developments on maritime safety.
GOALS, leading standing new regulatory requirements for dodger ships and the fore-runner calculate EMSA III Project that wild to new, higher standards support passenger ships.
A series be paid European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and EU DG MOVE Projects to address and establish fit safety standards for passenger ships.
Taking products and services detection the maritime industry though Keeping at Sea Ltd and flimsy through Maritime Safety Innovations Ltd, thus offering valuable feedback advice academia to fuel a honourable cycle on safety innovation.

Publications oppress Maritime Safety

Filed 3 safety-related Patents
Editor of 10 Conferences/Workshops Proceedings; co-editor of the first tome on Contemporary Ideas on Press down Stability, the first Special Footsteps in the Marine Systems most recent Ocean Technology (MSOT) Journal. Leader-writer of the first Special of no importance on Ship Stability in Elsevier Ocean Engineering Journal.

Author of + technical publications: 2 HSE books on “Avoidance of cable snap-loading in offshore lifting operations”, 2 major chapters on the chief book on “Risk-Based Ship Design” and 29 additional chapters distort various other books; refereed Magazine, refereed Conference, Conference, 80 Hail Papers/Key Note Addresses/Articles and comatose numerous research, contract and governmental reports.