Professor Kim Rasmussen
The University of Sydney
Email: [email protected]
Program 3 Leader
Kim Rasmussen is Challis Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering. He obtained his Masters of Science in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, and his PhD and higher doctorate (DEng) from the University of Sydney. He joined the School of Civil Engineering in 1989, and served as Head of School from 2005 until 2016. He was Deputy Dean and Associate Dean Research from 2016 to 2022, and acted as Interim Dean from 1 Jan 2018 to 30 June 2018.
He is Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Structural Engineering which operates within the School of Civil Engineering and supports research and consulting activities in the area of structural engineering. He is member or chairman of numerous Standards Australia committees and a member of the editorial boards of most of the leading journals in his field. He is also a member the Engineering, Information and Computing (EIC) Sciences Panel of the College of the Australian Research Council. Kim continues to be an active consultant to industry, nationally and internationally.
Kim’s main research areas are theoretical and experimental structural mechanics as applied to steel structural members and systems, cold-formed steel structures, stainless steel structures, aluminium structures, and structural stability and analysis. He has received continuous funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for more than 20 years and is currently the leading Chief Investigator on ARC research projects related to built-up midrise buildings, reliability and design of 3D printed metal structures, and limit state analysis of steel structural framework including fracture. Further details about recent and current research projects and publications are available at https://structuresgroup-eng.sydney.edu.au/.
Kim was awarded the 2016 Shortridge Hardesty Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his contributions to the development of practical design provisions and advanced analysis guidelines in the field of structural stability, among other awards from the ASCE. In 2020, he was awarded the Lynn Beedle Award by the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) as a “world-renowned authority on the field of structural stability”.