Dr. Buckingham is a Principal Engineer / Team Lead in the Incident Investigation section at DNV and has over 18 years of experience in the pipeline industry. Her expertise is in root cause analysis, failure analysis, and internal/external corrosion.

Kathy Buckingham has conducted root cause analyses, over 100 failure analyses, and corrosion testing associated with the oil and gas, petrochemical, maritime, aeronautical, and biomedical industries.

Prior to joining DNV, Kathy worked for a natural gas operator performing metallurgical analyses and emergency response support on pipelines, valves, compressor components, and storage well components, as well as analyzing internal corrosion coupons.