Professor John Andrews: is in the Resilience Engineering Research Group, at the University of Nottingham where he was appointed to a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Infrastructure Asset Management. Prior to this he worked for 20 years at Loughborough University as Professor of Systems Risk and Reliability where he remains a Visting Professor.
The prime focus of his research has been on methods for predicting system availability and reliability. The modelling methodologies developed have been extensively applied in the Nuclear, Aerospace, Railway and Oil and Gas industries.
John received an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Örebro University, Sweden in February 2018 and has been appointed as a Resilience Engineering Ambassador for the 4TU.RE Centre (Resilience Engineering Centre for the Technical Universities of Delft, Eindhoven, Twente and Wageningen, the Netherlands).
In 2005, John founded the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability of which he was the Editor-in-chief for 10 years.
His research has been awarded the following prizes from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: the Donald Julius Groen Prize (2009, 2017, 2022), John Jarrett Davis Prize (2014), Charles Sharpe Beecher Prize (2013), Ludwig Mond Prize (2004) and the Moss Prize (1999).