Professor Subhamoy Bhattacharya (Suby) holds the chair in Geomechanics at the University of Surrey and is a Visting/Adjunct Professor at various institutions. He is the co-founder of Renew Risk Limited (Address 1 Lime Street, Lloyds Building) www.renew-risk.com which develops Insurance Risk Models for Renewable Energy Assets such as Offshore Wind Farms, Solar Farms etc. He previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in Dynamics at University of Bristol, Departmental Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, Junior Research Fellow of Somerville College (University of Oxford), College Lecturer at Brasenose College and Lady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford). Professor Bhattacharya earned his doctorate from the University of Cambridge investigating failure mechanisms of piles in seismically liquefiable soils. Professor Bhattacharya had many happy years working in the Civil/Offshore Engineering consultancy: Staff engineer and project manager at Fugro Geo Consulting Limited (2003 to 2005), Consulting Engineering Services (I) Limited (now Jacobs). He has authored or co-authored 3 books: (a) Design of Foundations for offshore Wind Turbines (Wiley, 2019) (b) Seismic Design of Foundations: Concepts and Applications, ICE Publishing (c) Fundamentals of Engineering Mathematics, ICE publishing