Professional leadership and standards

– Chair and Director, CROSS-AUS — Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety
– Trustee and Board Member, Institution of Structural Engineers (2025–2027); former Chair, Australia Regional Group
– Chair of the Board, Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA), 2023–2027; Host, ICASP15, Melbourne, 2027
– Chair, Standards Australia BD-090-02: AS 5100.2 Bridge Design — Design Loads
– Member, Standards Australia committees for AS 5100.5 Concrete Bridges and AS 5100.7 Assessment of Existing Bridges
– Contributor to the Joint Committee on Structural Safety’s probabilistic model code for bridge traffic loading

International professional service

– Permanent Australian delegate and core member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
– Leader and member of IABSE task groups on bridge traffic loading, ship collision, structural management systems and performance-based design
– Member, Joint Committee on Structural Safety working groups on probabilistic traffic loading and online publications
– Secretary and co-founder, IABMAS Australia National Group
– Executive Committee member, Australian Network for Structural Health Monitoring
– Member, fib Task Group 8.4 on life-cycle cost

Editorial and peer-review service

– Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering (2018–)
– Editorial Board, Structural Safety (2017–)
– Reviewer for more than 40 international journals, spanning structural engineering, bridge engineering, infrastructure, dynamics and
reliability
– Guest Editor, The Structural Engineer special issues (2005; 2009)

Conference leadership

– Chair and Host, ICASP15: International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, Melbourne, 2027
– Chair, CROSS–JCSS Workshop on structural safety, London, 2025
– International scientific and organising committee roles for IABMAS, IABSE, ICASP, ANSHM, Austroads Bridge Conference, Concrete Institute of
Australia and CDIO conferences
– Organiser of specialist sessions on bridge loading, probabilistic traffic modelling, structural reliability and footbridge vibration
serviceability

Selected awards and distinctions

– Award for Excellence in Teaching, Monash University, 2025
– Joe O’Donovan Memorial Medal, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland, 2024
– Committee of the Year, Standards Australia BD-090 Bridge Design, 2024
– Research Award, IStructE Midland Counties, 2021
– Special Service Award, IABMAS, 2021
– Dean’s Research Impact Award, Monash University, 2019

Professional affiliations

– Fellow, Institution of Structural Engineers (CEng FIStructE)
– Fellow, Engineers Australia (CPEng FIEAust NER)
– Fellow, Engineers Ireland (CEng FIEI)
– Fellow, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (FIABSE)
– Registered Professional Engineer of Victoria
– Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, ISWIM, IABMAS and ANSHM