Liam Finn

W. D. Liam Finn, with B.Eng., from the National University of Ireland and M.Sc. and Ph.D from the University of Washington in Seattle, came to UBC in 1961. He started the first program of geotechnical earthquake engineering in Canada at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. He was Head of Civil Engineering and Dean of Applied Science at UBC. In 1999, he was appointed as the first Anabuki Professor of Foundation Geodynamics at Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan. Finn’s main research interest is geotechnical earthquake engineering and seismic risk. He has published over 350 papers on these topics and has won several awards including the Legget Medal, the highest honour from the Canadian Geotechnical Society and the Seed Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers.