Patrick Selvadurai - Curriculum Vitae

A.P.S. Selvadurai PhD, DSc, FRSC, PEng, CMath, William Scott Professor and James McGill Professor Mc Gill University, Montréal DSc (Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, UK, 1986) PhD (Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, UK, 1971) MS (Civil Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA, 1967) DIC (Soil Mechanics, Imperial College, London University, 1965) Dipl Eng (Civil Eng, University of Brighton, 1964) Dr. A.P.S. Selvadurai joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1975 as Assistant Professor, became Professor in 1981 and Head of the Department from 1982 to 1991. In 1993, he was invited by McGill University to become Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, a position he held till 1997. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Nottingham, U.K,; Universität Stuttgart, Germany; The Laboratoire 3S, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; The Department of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; The Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; The School of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Departement de Genie Civil, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland and The Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands. In 1998, Dr. Selvadurai received the Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Foundation of Germany), given to internationally acclaimed scientists and engineers. In 2000, he became the first civil engineer to be awarded the Killam Research Fellowship (Canada Council for the Arts), one of Canada's most distinguished research awards. In 2001 he was awarded the Inaugural John Booker Medal (International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics-IACMAG). In 2003 he received the prestigious Max Planck Forschungspreis in the Engineering Sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the Killam Prize in Engineering from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Gold Medal of the Canadian Congresses of Applied Mechanics. In 2008 he received the IACMAG Medal for Outstanding Accomplishments in Geomechanics. In 2010, he was awarded the ALERT Research Medal, by the Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology. He has published over 245 research papers in archival journals devoted to applied mechanics, geomechanics and applied mathematics, transport in porous media and computational mechanics and more than 286 in refereed international and national conferences. He is the author or co-author of texts devoted to Elastic Analysis of Soil-Foundation Interaction (Elsevier, 1979), Elasticity and Geomechanics (with R.O. Davis) (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics, Vols. 1&2 (Springer-Verlag, 2000) and Plasticity and Geomechanics (with R.O. Davis) (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has also edited or co-edited 9 books and 7 Special Issues of International Journals with peer review, devoted to nuclear waste disposal, environmental geomechanics, mathematics and mechanics of granular media, theoretical solid mechanics and contact mechanics. He serves on the Editorial Boards of nine leading International Journals devoted to Geomechanics, Applied Mechanics, Computational Mechanics and Engineering Mathematics. Dr. Selvadurai is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, American Academy of Mechanics, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.