I am Senior Lecturer in Geomechanics at UEL and Royal Society fellow, with an interest in early detection, prevention, correction and management of emerging geohazards. I have been working on a new generation of technologies based on micromechanisms of natural and manmade hazards; technologies that help evaluating the risk of modern-day ground-related hazards, and corrective techniques that are in symbiosis with natural functions and service provisions of ground (http://geohazards.co.uk/)