22-25 May 2018 | Rome
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Master Classes - 21 May 2018 | Rome
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SPEAKERS
John Dunnicliff
Director of the course
John is a self-employed consulting engineer, specializing in geotechnical and structural monitoring. He has taken the lead role in teaching more than 100 continuing professional development (continuing education) courses on this subject.
He is author of the 1988 and 1993 book “Geotechnical Instrumentation for Monitoring Field Performance“.
In 2010 he was awarded Distinguished Membership of the American Society of Civil Engineers, with the citation: “For pre-eminent leadership in the field of geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring and for his long and distinguished career as a specialty consultant dedicated to the improvement of geotechnical practice”
Paolo Mazzanti
Organizer of the course
Paolo Mazzanti (MSc in Geology and PhD in Earth Sciences) is Professor of Remote Sensing at the Department of Earth Sciences of the “Sapienza” University of Rome and CEO of NHAZCA S.r.l.. Paolo is the organizer and scientific leader of several international courses including the annual “International Course on Geotechnical and Structural Monitoring” that, in the last four years, attracted more than 450 people from 49 countries and 40 partners.
Paolo is responsible of consulting projects concerning tunnels, oil & gas, dams, open mines, large transportations infrastructures and landslides for national and international firms and agencies, in 8 countries.
Paolo tutored and co-tutored more than 30 MSc and PhD thesis in Engineering Geology, Civil Engineering and Remote Sensing and has been invited lecturer at several International Universities and Research Centers (e.g. Italy, France, UK, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Germany, USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Hong Kong, Belgium).
Paolo is member of the TRB Engineering Geology Committee and associated with several scientific associations (e.g. ISHMII, AIGA).
Paolo is author of more than 85 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings concerning the following topics: a) engineering geology (landslides, subsidences, settlements, snow avalanches); b) geological remote sensing; c) geotechnical and structural monitoring; d) monitoring by ground based and satellite radar; f) monitoring of civil structures and infrastructures, including cultural heritages; g) geotechnical assets management.
Scott Anderson
Speaker
Scott A. Anderson was named the Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer for 2016–2017. This lectureship was jointly established in 1988 by the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) and the Environmental and Engineering Division of the Geological Society of America (GSA) to increase student awareness about applied geology.
Until recently, Dr. Anderson was the Geotechnical Engineering Technical Services Team Manager for the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). He led a national team of geotechnical engineers that assist state and local transportation agencies through technical assistance, training and deployment of new technologies. Prior to joining FHWA fifteen years ago, he was a Senior Consulting Engineer and the Landslide Technology Leader for a major A/E design firm, and he was previously an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii. Now he is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer for BGC Engineering Inc. Dr. Anderson earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in engineering geology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
John Burland
Speaker
John Burland is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London. In addition to being very active in teaching and research, he has been responsible for the design and monitoring of many large ground engineering projects world-wide.
He was London Underground’s expert witness for the Parliamentary Select Committees on the Jubilee Line Extension and has advised on many geotechnical aspects of that project, including ensuring the stability of the Big Ben Clock Tower. He was a member of the Italian Prime Minister’s Commission for stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Paolo Clemente
Speaker
Paolo Clemente is Research Director at ENEA and Coordinator of the ENEA Task Force for earthquakes. He got his Civil Engineering Degree (summa cum laude) at University Federico II of Naples, and his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, and he has been an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Architecture "Valle Giulia" of Sapienza University of Rome, at the Faculty of Engineering of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Trento and at the Master on Antiseismic Engineering at L’Aquila University. He took part in several projects and was coordinator of EU cooperative research project proposals and he is the author of more than 300 scientific works in structural engineering.
Branko Glišić
Speaker
Johann Golser
Speaker
Associate Professor Branko Glišić received his degrees in Civil Engineering and Theoretical Mathematics at University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Ph.D. at the EPFL, Switzerland. After eight-year long experience at SMARTEC, Switzerland, he has been employed at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Princeton University. His areas of interest are Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methods, advanced sensors based on fiber-optics, large-area electronics and conductive polymers, SHM data analysis, smart structures and heritage structures. For his overall research achievements, he received 2013 SHM Person of the Year Award by the editors and associate editors of “Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal”, as well as several other awards. Prof. Glišić is author and co-author of more than hundred published papers, four university courses and short course on SHM, and the book “Fibre Optic Methods for Structural Health Monitoring”. He is Vice President and Council Member of ISHMII, and member or committee member of several other professional associations (ACI, EMI, TRB, IABSE, ASCE, IABMAS, etc.) and journal editorial boards (ASE, Sensors, FiBE, and SMM).
Johann Golser received the Master for Electrical Engineering and Measuring Techniques at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. He is owner and managing director of the Geodata Group, a worldwide acting company group providing services like surveying, geotechnical monitoring, construction survey and provision of instrumentation and monitoring databases. Johann is lecturer for Geotechnical Monitoring and Instrumentation at the Chair of Subsurface Engineering at the Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria and member of the teaching staff in the University Program in NATM Engineering at MU-Leoben and TU-Graz. He is also member of the ISO/TC 182/SC1/WG4, which is responsible for drafting the ISO-Standards on Geotechnical Monitoring by Field Instruments.
Daniele Inaudi
Speaker
Dr. Daniele Inaudi received a degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). In 1997, he obtained his Ph.D. in civil engineering at the IMAC Laboratory of Stress Analysis of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 2005, he received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern Switzerland. Daniele Inaudi is co-founder and CTO of SMARTEC SA and CTO of Roctest. Daniele Inaudi is author of more than 200 papers, five book chapters, a book on “Fiber Optic Methods for Structural Health Monitoring” and editor of a book on Optical Nondestructive Testing.
Michael Iten
Speaker
Michael originally studied civil engineering and then focused on novel applications of distributed fibre-optic sensing in geotechnical engineering during his PhD at ETH Zurich. He has a wide experience in bringing sensitive fibre-optic sensors into the rough construction environment for projects in the icy Swiss Alps to hot and humid Hong Kong. He is founder of Marmota Engineering AG: geotechnical experts for fibre-optic monitoring.
Werner Lienhart
Speaker
Werner Lienhart is Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems (IGMS) at Graz University of Technology, Austria. At IGMS Werner and his team develop new geodetic and fibre optic sensors and operate several permanent monitoring installations of landslides and critical infrastructure objects like bridges, tunnels and water dams.
Prior to his university position, Werner was product manager at Leica Geosystems at the headquarter in Switzerland. At Leica he was responsible for the development of the Galileo and GPS L5 capable receivers and the Leica imaging total stations.
Werner has published more than 70 scientific publications, holds several patents and is Vice-President of the Austrian Geodetic Commission.
Alfredo Rocca
Speaker
Alfredo Rocca is project manager of NHAZCA S.r.l., spin off of the “Sapienza” University of Rome.
He received the Master in Engineering Geology in 2010 and the PhD in Earth Sciences in 2014 at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. In the framework of his PhD (focused on the application of satellite SAR Interferometry), he collaborated with the European Space Research Institute of the European Space Agency (ESA) and in 2012 he was visitor researcher at the Institute of Space and Earth Information Sciences (ISEIS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong – SAR).
As project manager of NHAZCA, Alfredo has been involved in several projects, in particular relating to the application of radar interferometry to geotechnical and structural monitoring for unstable slopes, subsidence, mining, oil & gas and large infrastructures.
Alfredo is author of about 15 scientific papers in journals and proceedings of international conference on geology and remote sensing.
Eliano Romani
Speaker
Eliano Romani is Head of the Engineering Department of Metro C S.c.p.A., that is the General Contractor charged with the design, performance, works supervision, and supply of rolling stock for the Line C of the Rome Underground. The Line C project is the first fully automated underground railway line in Rome and consists of 30 new stations and 34 km of TBM tunnels with about 10 km that run under the historical city centre of Rome.
With ten years’ experience on construction of underground lines and structures, Eliano designs in particular underground stations, TBM tunnels and tunnels excavated with the open face traditional method.
He received his MSc in Civil Engineering in 2004 at the University "Tor Vergata", Rome, and in 2006 he began to work as Civil Engineer at Metro C, managing the geotechnical and structural design of several metro stations. In Metro C he learned a good competence in the use of innovative geotechnical technologies, such as soil ground freezing used in Metro C to excavate the tunnels that under crossed the pre-existing San Giovanni Line A station or the compensation grouting that is a method to reduce the potential interaction between the existing buildings and TBM tunnel excavations.
Tony Simmonds
Speaker
Tony Simmonds is a Director at Geokon, Inc, Lebanon, NH, USA, a manufacturer of geotechnical instrumentation, where he has worked for over 35 years. He graduated from Portsmouth University, in the UK, in 1979 with an honors degree in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics. He is responsible for Geokon’s network of overseas agents, representatives and system integrators and travels extensively to support them both on site and in commercially related matters.
Among the many projects in which he has been involved, some of the most notable include the Three Gorges Dam (China), the Petronas Twin Towers (KL, Malaysia), Itaipu Dam (Paraguay/Brazil), the Central Artery Project (Boston USA) and the Potzdamer Platz (Berlin, Germany).
Tony Simmonds is an active member of the TRB (Transportation Research Board), DFI (Deep Foundations Institute), ISSMGE (International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering), and ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers); and has spoken at numerous courses and presented papers at various symposia worldwide.
Michael Wan
Speaker
Michael Wan is a Senior Engineer in Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG), an independent specialist geotechnical consultancy company based in London staffed by geotechnical experts from around the world pooling their wide range of skills and experience. Michael is a UK and Hong Kong Chartered Engineer with 15 years of experience of geotechnical design and construction in United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, China and Malaysia. His expertise areas include field instrumentation & monitoring and ground investigation.
He received his MSc and PhD degrees in soil mechanics at Imperial College London. For his PhD research on the field measurement of greenfield ground responses to Crossrail TBM tunnelling in London Clay, Michael led the field investigation from planning and supervising the installation of the instruments to organising and performing the monitoring activities before, during and after the tunnel construction. From this field investigation, he has authored six papers in peer-reviewed journals.