Keynote Lecturers
We are excited to announce that the following Keynote Lectures will be delivered at XVI ECSMGE:
| Professor Kenichi Soga
University of Cambridge, UK
Title of talk:The Role of Distributed Sensing in Understanding the Engineering Performance of Geotechnical Structures
Kenichi Soga is Professor of Civil Engineering and the Head of the Geotechnical Group at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his BEng and MEng from Kyoto University in Japan and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. His current research activities are innovative monitoring and long-term performance of geoinfrastructure, energy geomechanics, and modeling of geotechnical construction processes. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and is co-author of "Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, 3rd edition" with Professor James K Mitchell. He is recipient of many awards including George Stephenson Medal (2006) and Telford Gold Medal (2010) from the Institution of Civil Engineers and Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (2007) from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. |
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| Professor Giulia Viggiani
Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Title of talk:Aritifical Ground Freezing: From Applications and Case Studies to Fundamental Research
Prof. Giulia Viggiani obtained a Laurea in Civil Engineering from Università di Napoli Federico II in 1989 and a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from City University, London, in 1994. She is currently Full Professor of Geotechnics at Roma Tor Vergata where she teaches Excavations and Earth Retaining Structures, Foundations, and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and is Head of the Board of Studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prof. Viggiani has a strong involvement in the activities of the geotechnical international scientific community. She is a member of ISSMGE TC204 – Underground Construction in Soft Ground and of ISSMGE TOC - Technical Oversight Committee. She has been Academic Visitor at Imperial College, UK (JLE-Link Project), Max Planck Institute Leipzig, DE, University of Minnesota, USA, and Cambridge University, UK. Her research interests and areas of expertise span from soil mechanics to geotechnical engineering: mechanical behaviour of soils and soft rocks at small strain; experimental investigation and constitutive modelling of the mechanical behaviour of granular soils with crushable grains; geotechnical characterisation of natural deposits; stability of excavation and cuts; numerical modelling of bored and open excavations, and of the interaction of tunnels and structures; evaluation of compensation grouting; physical and numerical modelling of retaining structures, tunnels, and foundations under seismic actions; artificial ground freezing. She has been the recipient of research funding from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN/MIUR), the European Community (EC/FP7), and Industry. |
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| Professor António Gomes Correia
University of Minho, Portugal
Title of Talk:Geotechnical Engineering for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
Graduated in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon - IST in 1977, and received a Doctor-Engineer Degree by “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées”- Paris in 1985. In 1987 he received the Doctor degree in Civil Engineering by the Technical University of Lisbon – IST and also in 1998 the “Habilitation in Civil Engineering. In 1987 he gained the specialist degree at the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), distinguished with Manuel Rocha Award. In 2001 he gets the degree of specialist in Geotechnique attributed by the Portuguese Association of Engineers. In 1998, he created the Geotechnical Research Centre at the Technical University of Lisbon – IST and he was its President until 2000.
He is since 2003 Full Professor at the University of Minho and from 2010 to 2013 Director of the Research Centre of Territory, Environment and Construction. He is also from 2010 chair of the Doctoral program in Civil Engineering and from 2013 Vice-Dean of School of Engineering of the University of Minho. He participated in over 35 national and international research projects. He was Vice-Chairman of COST 337 – Unbound Granular Materials for Road Pavements, member of CEN TC227/WG4/TG2 on test methods for Unbound Granular Materials and was also a member of COST 348 - Reinforcement of Pavements with Steel Meshes and Geosynthetics. He was an evaluation member of COST 351 WATMOVE “Water Movements in Road Pavements and Embankments”.
He is since 2013 expert (external member) of "Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior" (Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education - A3ES) for the scientific area of Civil Engineering being enrolled in 2013 as a panel member in the evaluation of undergraduate and graduate courses for three institutions in Portugal. He was from 1998 to 2001 Chairman of the ISSMGE - European Technical Committee - ETC 11 - Geotechnical aspects in design and construction of pavements and rail track and from 2001 chairman of the International Technical Committee - TC 3 – Geotechnics for pavements of the ISSMGE, renamed from 2009 as TC 202 – Transportation Geotechnics. He was serving TC 202 until 2014.
He is involved in research, teaching and consulting in the general field of geotechnics and pavement engineering for 37 years. His work embraced transportation geotechnics, particularly soil and pavement geo-material properties and modelling, compaction, soil improvement, foundations, geotechnical design and management. He has over 360 technical papers and 240 reports published on these subjects, with an h index of 9 (Scopus) and an h index of 16 and 932 citations (google scholar). He supervised over 116 graduated students, being 30 PhD students (4 ongoing). |