“After graduating as a civil engineer, David worked in industry for a number of years, initially for a building contractor and subsequently as a consulting engineer and bridge inspector. As a bridge inspector, he was cognisant of the fact that we were mostly making decisions based on visual data only, i.e. quantitative performance data (e.g. displacement due to a truck) was rarely recorded for logistical and technical reasons. However, David had a real interest in this, so he did a PhD on bridge Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). SHM is the science of trying to infer the health of a given structure from measurements taken on that structure, with the aim of prolonging the life of the structure.

After his PhD, David was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in SHM. Since joining Queens University Belfast, he has been working as an investigator on structural engineering research grants worth over £2 million. ”

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