Dr Michael Lim CGeog (Geomorph)

Biography

Michael Lim is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering. His research is focused on the interactions between materials, environmental processes, landforms and infrastructure within challenging environments, with particular emphasis on slope behaviour. His main area of expertise is on investigating the mechanisms that operate in coastal environments and how they interact to shape landforms, habitats and coastal communities. Michael is particularly interested in rocky coast geomorphology, and the advances enabled through new techniques capable of quantifying complex processes. He has developed and applied approaches to try and better understand slope systems and their relation to impacts in a wide range of environments, from Alpine slopes to the rocky coasts of Svalbard and permafrost thaw complexes in Canada. Much of this research informs his teaching on surveying skills, change detection and analysis, engineering geology, geotechnics and slope geomorphology, hazards and management.