Brendan, a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, is the principal investigator of the Geotechnical Research Group, including the research areas of environmental geotechnics and geoenvironmental engineering, with 25 years experience in research, development and consultancy. Brendan was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2010. He has authored over 125 technical publications, which include over 70 papers in high impact international journals. Prior to his current appointment, Brendan was a design engineer with Scott Wilson Consulting Engineers, UK, and for successive two-year periods as the Pierce-Newman Fellow in Civil Engineering, Research Fellow in Soil Mechanics and Assistant Lecturer in Civil Engineering at University College Dublin, Ireland.