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Emeritus Professor Roger Hobbs retired from Imperial College London in 2003 but maintains an active part-time presence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a Senior Research Investigator. He has been associated with Imperial for 40 years, completing his BSc in Engineering followed by a PhD in the 1960s and becoming a member of the staff. Professor Hobbs also served as the Head of the Department in the mid-1990s. Throughout his career, he has maintained close links with industry, particularly with Tension Technology International and major steel companies in the UK, Europe, and the Far East. He was involved in an EU committee that played a key role in the early development of the steel Eurocode, specifically EC3. His extensive contributions to the fields of civil and structural engineering have been recognized by his peers, earning him awards and fellowship in various institutions. Professor Hobbs' areas of expertise include high strength fiber ropes, fiber yarn buckling, torsional properties of chains, pipeline plate upheaval buckling, reliability-based design of submarine pipelines, and plated structures, as well as experimental and computational methods in structural mechanics.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.