David Reid, PhD, CPEng
David Reid is a Senior Principal Tailings Engineer based in Australia with more than 20 years of experience focused on tailings characterization and modeling. As leader of REELab, a dedicated tailings testing facility in Perth, he specializes in the laboratory characterization of tailings and conducts stability analyses and numerical modeling.
Specialties
Tailings Engineering and Analysis; Stability Analysis, Numerical Modeling
Practice Areas
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Education
PhD, Geotechnical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 2017; MEngSc, Geotechnical Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2011
Registration
CPEng
Client Service
Mining clients benefit both from David’s combination of strong consulting and research experience and from his ability to distill findings and methods developed in academia for direct application to better characterise tailings. In addition, he supports large mining clients with peer review as they critically assess available information and analyses.
Contact David at david.reid@redearthengineering.com.au.
