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The Department would like to congratulate alumnus Dr David Hight who was recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
Dr Hight FRENG FRS, is currently a Senior Consultant and Founding Director of the Geotechnical Consulting Group.
He was a Lecturer in the Department between 1975 and 1983, and has been Visiting Professor at Imperial College (1993-2012), at the National University of Singapore (2000) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983). He was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Dr Hight joins a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists in one of the oldest scientific academies, which has played a part in some of the most fundamental, significant, and life-changing discoveries in scientific history.
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Lucy Chivers
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Email: l.chivers@imperial.ac.uk
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