David Muir Wood has taught soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering courses at the universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, and Bristol for 33 years. He is the author of more than 100 research publications, two books - Soil Behavior and Critical State Soil Mechanics (Cambridge, 1990) and Geotechnical Modelling (2004) - and numerous book chapters. He was co-chairman of the Geotechnical computer-aided learning project.