Professor John Boscawen Burland
FREng FRS
Imperial College London , as of Sep 2026
Fellow , Elected 1981 , Greater London , Academia
John Boscawen Burland is a geotechnical engineer, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London, and a noted expert in the field of soil mechanics.
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Expertise
- Education
- Foundations
- Geotechnics
- Ground
- Landslide
- Soil Mechanics
- Structural Engineering
- Tunnelling
- Engineering Geology
- Underground Structures
- Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
- Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
- Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- critical state theory
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Sources
- Identity
Confirmed (grade B) , the Academy’s directory lists them under Imperial College London, and a source names them there , RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026
Why we think this is them
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , records them as a Fellow of the Academy , names them at Imperial College London
RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , lists them under Imperial College London
royalsociety.org , 11 Oct 2026 , states they are a Fellow
- Directory entry
RAEng directory , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence
- Sector
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , inferred from the organisation , facts , high confidence
- Summary
Wikipedia , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC BY-SA 4.0 , medium confidence
- Topics
OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence
royalsociety.org , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , low confidence
- Links
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , CC BY-SA 4.0 , high confidence
Wikipedia, ORCID: Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
ORCID: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
OpenAlex: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence
Wikidata: Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence