After a period in the shipbuilding industry, he held academic appointments at Sunderland Polytechnic, Strathclyde University and was a visiting professor at the Florida Institute of Technology before taking up his current post in 1990. Professor Wolfram is responsible for the installation of a multi-directional wave basin which is currently being constructed within the department. Research Interests Professor Wolfram' s research has been mainly in the areas of hydrodynamics, structural safety and reliability. Current interests include the joint probability of extreme environmental loading, slamming and extreme dynamic response of monohulls, predictive accuracy of hydrodynamic model experiments, and the fluid loading of circular cylinder and risk-based pipeline inspection strategies. In addition to being the Associate head of department, Professor Wolfram is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Course Director for theMSc in Reliability Engineering and Safety Management.
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