Infrastructure and Environment

I am a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering. I spent years working as researcher, engineer and university academic in Malaysia and Japan before joining Edinburgh. I have amassed good experience in research and application in the fields of structures and construction materials, with specific focuses in structural repair and retrofit, low carbon cementitious materials, condition monitoring and non-destructive evaluation of structures.

BEng(Hons) in Civil Engieering (Universiti Sains Malaysia) MEngSc in Concrete Materials (Universiti Malaya) PhD in Civil Engineering (Osaka University)

• Chartered Member of Institution of Structural Engineers
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy
• Senior Member of International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)
• Member of British Institute of Non-destructive Testing "Civil Engineering Group"
• Graduate Member of Board of Engineers Malaysia

• Detailed Design of Structures 3 CIVE09029 - Lecturer
• Structural Design Philosophy 3 CIVE09033 - Course Organiser and Lecturer
• Plastic Analysis of Frames and Slabs CIVE10003 - Course Organiser and Lecturer
• Concrete Structures 4 CIVE10029 - Course Organiser and Lecturer
• Interdisciplinary Group Design Project (Engineering) SCEE11010 - Lecturer
• Interdisciplinary Group Design Project 4 SCEE11014 - Course organiser and Lecturer

• Reinforced concrete structures modelling, analysis and design
• Acoustic emission monitoring and data analysis
• Low carbon cementitious composite materials development
• Elastic wave tomography development and implementation
• Structural appraisal, strengthening and retrofit

Accepting PhD projects.

Tom has been Chancellor's Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Civil Engineering at the University of Edinburgh since June 2017. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Bath and Cambridge, and in engineering consultancy with White Young Green and Adams Kara Taylor, involved in civil and structural engineering design for projects ranging from a new sea lock in Swansea to the Masdar Institute building with Foster and Partners in Abu Dhabi. He studied for his PhD at the University of Bath in the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials. He then worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Leverhulme Trust sponsored Natural Material Innovation project at the University of Cambridge. Tom has been a chartered member of the Institution of Civil Engineers since 2010.

MEng Engineering Science (First Class), University of Oxford 2005

PhD University of Bath 2013

PGCert Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Cambridge 2017

Tom has been a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers since 2010

Tom teaches structural mechanics, engineering materials and design courses.

Tom researches the use of wood and bamboo in structures, structural sensing and structural dynamics.

In wood and bamboo, he is interested in connection performance, including the stiffness and strength of dowel-type timber connections, and carpentry connections, including those made by computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication.

In structural sensing and structural dynamics, Tom is interested in what designers can learn by putting sensors on structures and measuring how they move under everyday loads.