Sarah Springman
Dame Sarah Marcella Springman
Early life, education and family
Born in London in 1956, Springman was educated at
Academic career
Springman was a doctoral student in the Soil Mechanics Group at Cambridge University, and was supervised initially by
Supported by various funds to introduce computer aided learning at ETH Zurich, she worked with Les Davison from the
The emphasis of Springman's research is on geotechnical modelling of soil structure interaction problems, including design and construction of
Springman is an advocate for access for women to STEM / MINT studies and engages in many events and campaigns to support this.[10]
In March 2021, it was announced that Springman would be the next Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in succession to Sir Gordon Duff. She took up the position on 1 February 2022.[11] In June 2022, she gave a farewell lecture at the ETH in Zurich.[12]
Sporting career
In addition to being a civil engineer, she represented Great Britain at the elite level in
She served as Vice-President of the
She is a member of the
She started rowing in 1994 as part of a Women's Rowing Development Project, sponsored by the ARA (now British Rowing), which was based at Thames Tradesmen Rowing Club, coached by Doug Parnham. Subsequently, she has won medals at the British Rowing Championships for Rob Roy BC in the single and quad sculls and in the Swiss National Rowing Championships for Belvoir RC (Zurich) in the single, quad sculls and women's eight and in European and World Masters Championships in various boat classes.[18] She is a 3-time winner of the Masters CRASH-B World Indoor Rowing sprints over 2000m,[19][20][21] and holds World[22] and British[23] indoor rowing records in the 60-69 age group.
Honours and awards
Springman was appointed
- 2000–2008: Member of Schweizerischer Wissenschafts- und Technologierat and ETH Planungskommission.[7]
- 2009: Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2013: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Awards[14]
- 2025: Karl Terzaghi Lecture[26]
Publications
- Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (Proc. 7th Int. Conference, ICPMG, Zürich), CRC Press 2010, ISBN .
- P. W. Mayne, M. R. Coop, Sarah Springman, A. B. Huang, J. Zornberg State of the Art Paper: GeoMaterial Behavior and Testing, Proc. 17. ICSMGE, Volume 4, Mill Press/IOS Press, Rotterdam 2009, ISBN .
- Sarah Springman, Phillips, Arenson: Permafrost, Swets und Zeitlinger 2003, ISBN .
- Constitutive and Centrifuge Modelling – two Extremes, Taylor and Francis 2002, ISBN .
References
- ^ Nils Pfändler: Rektorin Sarah Springman im Portrait. NZZ, 7 December 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Neue ETH-Rektorin: Sarah Springman" (in German). 10vor10. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ^ "Sarah Marcella Springman". Debretts People of Today online. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ a b c "Ms Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Springman". ETH Zurich. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ^ "Professor Sarah Springman CBE, FREng". University of Bath. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ "Announcement of election of new Principal". Oxford University. 4 March 2021.
- ^ a b c Franziska Schmid (11 July 2014). "Sarah Springman to become Rector of ETH Zurich". ETH Zurich. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ CALICE. "CALICE".
- ^ GeoTIP. "GeoTIP".
- ^ "Diversity and Inclusion Campaign by the Royal Academy of Engineering". Royal Academy of Engineering.
- ^ "St Hilda's College announce election of a new Principal". Oxford University. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ "Sarah Springmans Farewell Lecture at ETH Zurich." ETH Zurich, 3 June 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Union, International Triathlon. "Sarah Springman, Honorary Member". Triathlon.org. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ a b "ITU Vice President Sarah Springman wins Lifetime Achievement Award". 7 December 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "SUSTAINABILITY AND LEGACY COMMISSION". Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Powell, Jonathan. "Alistair Brownlee takes gold in the men's triathlon, brother Jonathan wins silver". Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Union, International Triathlon (31 August 2019). "ITU announces 2019 Hall of Fame inductees". Triathlon.org. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ Belvoir, RC. "Belvoir RC".
- ^ "CRASH-B Sprints WIRC 1999".
- ^ "CRASH-B Sprints WIRC 2001".
- ^ "Crash-B Sprint Results 2017 WIRC".
- ^ "World Indoor rowing records Concept 2 60-69".
- ^ "British Indoor Rowing records Concept 2 60-69".
- ^ "Culture Secretary announces new UK Sport board members" (in German). Department for Culture, Media & Sport. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N8.
- ^ "Karl Terzaghi Lecture". www.asce.org. Retrieved 28 February 2024.