Andrew Mcbride

Biography

I graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1998. I completed my MSc in the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM) in 2000. After working for a year as a civil engineer, I returned to UCT as a researcher in the Centre for Minerals Research developing and validating numerical models for granular flows. In 2004, I began a PhD under Daya Reddy (CERECAM). My PhD investigated finite element formulations for non-classical models of plasticity developed to capture scale effects. After graduating in 2008, I continued in CERECAM as a research officer. I began my post-doctoral studies in 2010 with Paul Steinmann at the Chair of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The focus of my research was on non-classical models of diffusion, mechanics of surfaces and interfaces, and homogenization. I returned to Cape Town in 2012 as a senior researcher in CERECAM. I started as a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow in January 2016. My current research interests relate to the area of computational materials science.

Research Interest

Infrastructure and Environment