| 词条 | Robert Mair, Baron Mair |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Mair | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep= |CBE|FRS|FICE|FREng}} | image = official portrait of Lord Mair crop 2.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Lord Mair's official parliamentary photo | office = Member of the House of Lords {{small|Lord Temporal}} | term_start = 29 October 2015 {{small|Life Peerage}} | term_end = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1950|4|20}}[1] | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Geotechnical engineering Tunnel design & construction | workplaces = University of Cambridge Institution of Civil Engineers Crossrail Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG) Laing O'Rourke Scott Wilson Group The Leys School | alma_mater = Clare College, Cambridge | thesis_title = Centrifugal modelling of tunnel construction in soft clay | thesis_url = http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=11135 | thesis_year = 1979 | doctoral_advisor = Andrew N. Schofield | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Jubilee Line Extension[2] | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Fellow of the Royal Society Commander of the Order of the British Empire | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~rjm50}} | footnotes = | spouse = }}Robert James Mair, Baron Mair, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FRS|FICE|FREng}} (born 20 April 1950) is a geotechnical engineer and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering. He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, from 2001 to 2011 and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001.[3][4][5] In 2014 he was elected a vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and on 1 November 2017 became the Institution's President for 2017-18, its 200th anniversary year.[6][7] On 13 October 2015 his appointment to be a peer in the House of Lords was announced. He sits as a Crossbencher.[8] EducationThe son of William Austyn Mair, Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1952–1983), Mair was educated at St Faith's[9] and The Leys School in Cambridge[1] and went on to study Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge gaining a MA degree in 1975[1] and a PhD degree in 1979.[10] Honours and awardsMair was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1992,[11] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007.[12] Mair delivered the 46th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association in 2006, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[13] Mair has been awarded numerous research grants by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[14] On 29 October 2015, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Mair, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire.[15] In February 2019 Mair was elected a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.[16] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U26347/ |title=‘MAIR, Prof. Robert James’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 |format= |work= |accessdate=}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pth0t |title=BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Prof Robert Mair |format= |work= |accessdate=}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Professor Robert Mair appointed to the House of Lords|url=http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-robert-mair-appointed-house-lords|accessdate=26 November 2015}} 4. ^{{AcademicSearch|50920865}} 5. ^{{Cite journal | last1 = Burland | first1 = John B. | authorlink1 = John Burland| last2 = Mair | first2 = Robert James| authorlink2 = | title = Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood FREng FICE. 8 August 1921 – 1 February 2009 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2013.0011 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | year = 2013 | pmid = | pmc = }} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Mair confirmed as next ICE President|url=https://www.newcivilengineer.com/mair-confirmed-as-next-ice-president/10016025.article|accessdate=15 January 2017}} 7. ^{{cite news|last1=Pitcher|first1=Greg|title=ICE chief becomes a peer|url=http://www.nce.co.uk/news/ice-chief-becomes-a-peer/8690422.article|accessdate=26 November 2015|work=New Civil Engineer online|date=14 October 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Four new con-party-political peers|url=http://lordsappointments.independent.gov.uk/news/house_of_lords_appointments_commission_-_four_new_non-party-political_peers.aspx|publisher=House of Lords Appointments Commission|accessdate=13 October 2015}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.stfaiths.co.uk/old-fidelians/old-fidelian-profiles-2/professor-lord-mair|title=Professor Lord Mair - St Faith's School Website|website=St Faith's School Website|access-date=2016-04-28}} 10. ^{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Robert|last=Mair |title=Centrifugal modelling of tunnel construction in soft clay |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=1979 |url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=11135}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|publisher = Royal Academy of Engineering}} 12. ^[https://royalsociety.org/people/robert-mair-11876/ Biography Robert Mair] - website of the Royal Society 13. ^{{London Gazette |issue=59282 |date=31 December 2009 |page=8 |supp=y}} 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=51807 |title=Grants awarded to Robert Mair by the EPSRC |format= |work= |accessdate=}} 15. ^{{London Gazette |issue=61399 |date=4 November 2015 |page=21622 |nolink=yes }} 16. ^{{cite web |title=National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 Foreign Members |url=https://www.nae.edu/204037.aspx?hootPostID=f7e2b4d72f0f1b577c6a242a109548a3 |accessdate=5 March 2019}} External links
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