Tim Newson, PhD, is an Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University. Dr. Newson joined Western's Geotechnical Research Centre in 2005 after seven years as a Professor at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He has worked in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia on engineering projects for the offshore, mining, environmental and civil engineering industries. His research interests and consulting activities include in-situ testing, constitutive modelling of clays, disposal of mine wastes, centrifuge and laboratory testing techniques, dynamic soil-structure interaction, contaminant movement through soils, offshore engineering and soils, fracture behaviour in clayey soils, dynamic compaction of soils and the biomechanics of the eye.