Distinguished Professor Mark Stewart

University of Technology Sydney

Email: [email protected]

Program 1 Leader

Mark Stewart is a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Built Infrastructure Resilience at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining UTS in July 2022 Mark was Professor and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at The University of Newcastle. He is an international leader in risk assessment, public policy decision making, and protective infrastructure for extreme hazards. He has applied risk assessment and probabilistic methods to a wide range of infrastructure/engineering systems, including terrorism and climate change. His ideas have been presented in four seminal books and many scientific and engineering papers, and has brought engineering and scientific expertise into the public policy domain. He is Editor-in-Chief of Structural Safety, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

Mark recently led a consortium of five universities in Australia for the $3.5 million CSIRO Flagship Cluster Fund project Climate Adaptation Engineering for Extreme Events (CAEx). The CAEx Cluster assessed the impact of climate change on damage and safety risks to infrastructure, and assessed the cost-effectiveness of engineering adaptation strategies. That work delivered world-class modelling of the performance and resilience of houses, industrial and commercial buildings, railways, and power distribution infrastructure subject to extreme wind, floods, and heat.