Patrick Selvadurai

Short Bio:

Dr. A.P.S. Selvadurai is currently William Scott Professor and Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Mechanics from the University of Nottingham, under the tutelage of the eminent continuum mechanicist the late Professor A.J.M. Spencer FRS and in 1986 the D.Sc. in Theoretical Mechanics for research into “Mathematical Modelling of Problems in Geomechanics and Elastomechanics”. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1975 as Assistant Professor, became Professor in 1981 and Head of the Department from 1982 to 1991. from 1993 to 1997, he Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill Iniversity. In 1991, Dr. Selvadurai received the Inaugural Horst Leipholz Medal of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering and in 1993 the Engineering Medal for Research and Development of The Professional Engineers of Ontario. In 1998, Dr. Selvadurai received the Humboldt Forschungspreis. In 2000, he became the first civil engineer to be awarded the Killam Research Fellowship Canada Council for the Arts. In 2001 he was awarded the Inaugural John Booker Medal of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics-IACMAG. In 2003 he received the prestigious Max Planck Forschungspreis in the Engineering Sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the Killam Prize in Engineering from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Gold Medal of the Canadian Congresses of Applied Mechanics. In 2008 he received the IACMAG Medal for Outstanding Accomplishments in Geomechanics. In 2010, he was awarded the ALERT Research Medal, by the Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology. In 2013, he was awarded the Eric Reissner Medal of the ICCES and the Maurice A. Biot Medal of the ASCE. In 2017 he was awarded the C.S. Desai Medal of the IACMAG for outstanding contributions to computational geomechanics.