Emeritus Professor
Email:
Location:
OSR Offsite Research
Engineering Discipline:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Academic Qualifications:
- 1978 BEng (1st class), Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool
- 1990 MA, University of Oxford
- 1982 PhD, University of Liverpool
- 2007 DSc, University of Oxford
Professional Qualifications and Memberships:
- 1988 European Engineer, Eur Ing
- 2014 Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng
- 1985 Chartered Engineer, CEng
- 2003 Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers, FICE
- 2015 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE
Research Interests:
Professor Borthwick's research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, flood risk management, coastal processes, offshore engineering, and marine renewable energy.
- Coastal and Offshore Engineering
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Marine Power Resource Assessment
Specialities:
- Coastal and Offshore Engineering
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Marine Power Resource Assessment
Further Information:
- Alistair was Head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University College Cork from 2011-13, where he was the Founding Director of the SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland.
- Alistair Borthwick is Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics at The University of Edinburgh, an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and holds Adjunct Professorships at Peking University and NUI Galway.
- Alistair was the founding Chairman of the Editorial Board of the ICE Journal of Engineering and Computational Mechanics.
- Professor Borthwick's research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, flood risk management, coastal processes, offshore engineering, and marine renewable energy.
- Since 1998, he has collaborated with Peking University on all material fluxes in large rivers, and water and wastewater treatment technologies.
- Alistair Borthwick has almost 40 years' engineering experience. He helped design the Hutton Tension Leg Platform, which won the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in 1984.
- He was previously Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked for 21 years from 1990-2011.
