Professor Robert Mair CBE, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and member of Energy@Cambridge at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed an independent crossbench peer in recognition of his world-renowned role as a civil engineer, and his extensive practical and academic expertise on infrastructure and construction.
Professor Mair said, "I am greatly honoured by this appointment which I view as also a tribute to my many colleagues in CSIC and elsewhere in the Department of Engineering."