Winner of the 2007 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year Professor Mark Cassidy completed his first degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in 1994.

Following graduation, Professor Cassidy joined consulting engineering firm Ove Arups in Brisbane, where he was involved in the design of the central station in Hong Kong’s new airport-rail link.

In October 1995, Professor Cassidy moved to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. His doctorate was concerned with the numerical modelling of the dynamic response of jack-up platforms subjected to random ocean waves and was successfully examined in September 1999.

After graduating from Oxford, Professor Cassidy spent two months working for the World Commission on Dams in Cape Town, South Africa and two months consulting for the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). He joined the University of Western Australia's Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems in March 2000 to work in the area of wave-structure-soil interaction.

(Source: http://www.cofs.uwa.edu.au/About/Personnel/Staff/DrMarkCassidy.html)