Professional Activities
Professional Activities
2021 - present
Member (Selected) of ISSMGE AsRTC1 "Geotechnical Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change-induced Geo-disasters in Asia-Pacific Regions"
2021 - 2022
Guest Editor, Special Issue on "New Frontiers in Sustainable Geotechnics", Applied Sciences
2019 - present
Member (NZGS Representative) of ISSMGE TC101 "Laboratory Testing"
2018 - 2021
Co-Editor - NZ Geomechanics News, NZGS
2018 - 2021
Executive Board Member, NZGS
2017 - present
Associate Editor - International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IJGEE)
2016
Team Leader - NZSEE "LFE Mission", Kumamoto Earthquake, Japan
2015
Team Co-Leader - JSCE and JGS "LFE Mission", Gorkha Nepal Earthquake
Conferences (Member of Organising Committee)
2018
Conference Chair, 1st NZ-Japan Joint Symposium on Structural and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Nov. 27, Christchurch, NZ
2015
Special Session Organiser, 2015 Gorkha Nepal Earthquake Session, 6th ICEGE, Nov. 4, Christchurch , NZ
Leadership Roles at Conferences
International Advisory Committee Member / Scientific Committee Member
CREST 2023, 20-22 Nov. 2023, Fukuoka, Japan
IS-Porto 2023, Sept 2023, Porto, Portugal
CREST 2021, 9-11 March 2021, Fukuoka, Japan
Session Reporter
20th Symposium of the NZGS, 24-25 Nov. 2017, Napier, NZ
Session Chair/Moderator
CREST 2021, 9-11 March 2021, Fukuoka, Japan
Assessment and Mitigation of Liquefaction Risk: Liquefact (EU) – QuakeCoRE (NZ), 2 Sept. 2019, Nelson, NZ
13th ANZ Geomechanics Conference, 1-3 April 2019, Perth, Australia
6th ICEGE, 4 Nov. 2015, Christchurch, NZ
Reviewer for Geotechnical Engineering Journals
Bulletin of the New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering (BNZSEE)
Canadian Geotechnical Journal (CGJ)
Engineering Geology
Environmental Geotechnics, ICE
Geotechnical Engineering, ICE
Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM (GTJ)
Geotechnique Letters
Journal of Geoengineering and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE (JGGE)
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (SDEE)
Soils and Foundations
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE
Professional Memberships
2012 - present
ISSMGE, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
2012 - present
Engineering New Zealand (formerly IPENZ)
2012 - present
NZGS, New Zealand Geotechnical Society
2012 - present
NZSEE, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
2011 - present
AEES, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society
2014 - 2016
JSCE, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2014 - 2016
JGS, Japanese Geotechnical Society