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Roisin Buckley is a Senior Lecturer at the James Watt School of Engineering and a Chartered Civil Engineer. She graduated with a BEng in Civil Engineering from the University of Galway in 2007 and spent 6 years working as a geotechnical engineer in Ireland and Australia. She completed her MSc and PhD at Imperial College London, focusing on offshore pile foundations in chalk, and later moved to the University of Oxford as a Departmental Lecturer. She was appointed Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 2021 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2024. Roisin is also a Visiting Fellow in Engineering at the University of Oxford and serves as an Associate Editor for Géotechnique. In 2024, she was named Chartered Engineer of the Year by Engineers Ireland for her leading geotechnical engineering research supporting the energy transition. Her research interests primarily focus on complex subsurface interactions in onshore and offshore engineered structures. Alongside a group of external collaborators, she addresses a range of experimental and theoretical challenges related to geotechnics, subsurface characterization, field monitoring, and soil-structure interaction, with a current emphasis on foundations for offshore wind turbines, contributing to innovative design practices for large-scale developments.