Emeritus Professor Email Alistair.Borthwick@ed.ac.uk Location No Fixed Office Engineering Discipline Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Institutes Infrastructure and Environment Energy Systems Research Publications Academic Qualifications 1978 BEng (1st class), Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool1990 MA, University of Oxford1982 PhD, University of Liverpool2007 DSc, University of Oxford Professional Qualifications and Memberships 1988 European Engineer, Eur Ing2014 Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng1985 Chartered Engineer, CEng2003 Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers, FICE2015 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Specialities Coastal and Offshore EngineeringEnvironmental Fluid MechanicsMarine 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.
