Holger Maier is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining the university in 1999, he worked as a consultant in the private and public sectors in South Australia, as Senior Civil Engineer with the Western Samoa Water Authority and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. His research is focussed on developing improved techniques for the sustainable management of infrastructure and natural resources in an uncertain environment and includes elements of modelling, optimisation and decision support. He has in excess of 130 journal publications and has received a number of national and international awards for his teaching and research, such as the Australian Award for University Teaching and the Biennial Medial from the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.