Guy T. Houlsby

Guy Tinmouth Houlsby FREng^[1] is Professor of Civil Engineering and former Head of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.^[2] He specialises in Geotechnical Engineering and more particularly in offshore foundations.

Guy T. Houlsby
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	A Study of Plasticity Theories and Their Applicability to Soils (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Wroth
Website	www.eng.ox.ac.uk/civil/people/gth-1/houlsby

Education

He carried out research in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, under the advisory of Peter Wroth, leading to the award of a PhD degree in 1981 with his thesis titled "A Study of Plasticity Theories and Their Applicability to Soils".^[3]

Recognition

Professor Houlsby was invited to deliver the 54th BGA Rankine Lecture in 2014 at Imperial College, entitled "Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design".^[4] In 2001 he delivered the 5th BGA Géotechnique Lecture.

He was elected in 1999 as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).^[5]