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Eduardo Alonso is Civil Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1969 and Ph.D by Northwestern University in 1973.

He has taught soil mechanics, rock mechanics, geotechnics and foundations, soil dynamics, constituent equations, and tunnels and underground excavations.

He has published more than four hundred articles in international journals and national and international symposiums, in which he has been guest speaker on multiple occasions. The research topics include the probability and statistics in soil mechanics, unsaturated soil mechanics, rock mechanics and thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of soils, dams of loose materials and stability of slopes. He is an evaluator of international journals, chairman of the ITC106 Committee (Unsaturated Soils) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

He has done more than 200 jobs as a consultant, in Spain and abroad, on deep excavations, nuclear power plants, land reinforcemente, design of shallow and deep foundations, stability of slopes, strengthening of structures, reconnaissance of land, concrete and rock-fill dams, tunnels and storage of nuclear waste.

Education
1969   Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Civil Engineer). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

1973   PhD. Northwestern University, United States

1976   Diploma in Subsurface Hydrology. Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain.

Journal publications (Google Scholar database)

 * 300 Refereed Journal papers, 2 Books, 17 Book Chapters, 12 Book Editions and Special Issues
 * h-index: 31 (31 papers cited at least 31 times)
 * Most cited paper: 1287 citations (A constitutive model for partially saturated soils, Géotechnique, 1990, 40(3): 405-430)
 * Total citations : 4894
 * Number of publications in Géotechnique: 37

Fellowships, Awards and Prices
2017     BAKER MEDAL. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom) Premium Prize granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Thermo-poro-mechanical analysis of landslides”

2017     RANKINE LECTURE. Triggering and motion of Landslides.

2016     TELFORD MEDAL. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom) Maximum distinction of the ICE in all fields of Civil Engineering granted to the Géotechnique paper: “The material point method for unsaturated soils”.

2014     MONT TERRI AWARD. Federal Office of Geology. Switzerland.

2014     BEST PAPER in Journal “Landslides” in 2012: “Canelles landslide: modelling rapid drawdown and fast potential sliding”.

2014     GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH MEDAL.Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). Granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Compacted soils: Initial state, microstructure and constitutive modelling”.

2014     TOURING LECTURE: “Rapid Landslides” British Geotechnical Association.

2013     30th ROCHA LECTURE. Portuguese Geotechnical Society, Lisboa.

2013     3rd KEZDI LECTURE. Hungarian Geotechnical Society, Budapest.

2012     1st HEIM LECTURE: “Deformation analysis of landslides. Progressive failure, thermal interactions and rate effects”. International Symposium on Landslides, Banff, Canada.

2011     10th CROCE LECTURE: “Crystal growth in Geotechnics”. Italian Geomechanics Society. Rome.

2010     GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH MEDAL. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). Granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Thermo-hydraulic characterisation of soft rock by means of pulsed heating tests”. 2009

2009     GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH MEDAL. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom).. Granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Gas flow through clay barriers”.

2007     10th SOWERS Lecturer. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia.

2006     TELFORD MEDAL. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom) Maximum distinction of the ICE in the field of Civil Engineering granted to the Géotechnique paper: “The failure of Aznalcóllar dam”.

2006     CRAMPTON PRIZE. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). Distinction of the ICE granted to the Géotechnique paper: “A review of Beliche dam”

2003     11th BUCHANAN Lecturer. Texas A&M University.

2003     2nd Conferencier COULOMB. Comité Français de Mécanique des Sols et Travaux des Fondations.

2000     MEDALLA NARCÍS MONTURIOL. Generalitat de Catalunya. Granted for Technological and Scientific Merit.

1995     PREMIO JOSE TORÁN. Comité Español de Grandes Presas (Spain). Granted to the paper: "Metodología para el análisis de la seguridad de presas y su macizo de cimentación".

1994     TELFORD MEDAL. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom) Maximum distinction of the ICE in all fields of Civil Engineering granted to the Géotechnique paper: “The landslide of Cortes de Pallas, Spain”.

1973     Fellowship funded by Spanish Ministry for the education of graduates in teaching and technology.

Knowldege Exchange and Consultancy Activities
Over 300 consulting jobs in Spain and abroad involving slope stability, embankment dams, concrete dams, tailing dams, deep excavations, nuclear power stations, airports, tunnels, diaphragm walls, ground improvement techniques, design of deep and shallow foundations, large-scale scientific facilities, underpinning of structures, site investigation reports.

Main Teaching Activities at School of Civil Engineering of UPC
Geomechanics of Failures (2012-present), Geomechanics and Geotechnical Eng. (2012-present), Underground Excavations (1992-present), Rock Mechanics (1992-present), Soil Mechanics (1998-2007), Geotechnics (1992-1998)

Supervision of PhD Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Supervisor of 33 Doctoral Thesis (completed) at UPC since 1977. Currently he supervises the work of 6 PhD students. Supervisor of 34 Master Thesis (completed) at UPC since 2004.

Keynote and Plenary Lectures
Keynote, Invited and Plenary Lectures in main international conferences and symposia: 8 in 1977-88; 24 in1988-98; 50 in 1995-2005; 90 in 2005-15

Scientific Profile
Experimental Geomechanics (gas migration testing, hydro-mechanical testing for heavily compacted bentonite, rockfill, and bentonite pellet mixture, heating pulse tests for thermo-hydraulic characterisation of rocks)

Constitutive Modelling (unsaturated non-active and active clays, rockfill, crushable geomaterials, unsaturated marls, crystal growth, sulphate attack to cement treated soils))

Analytical modelling (thermo-hydro-mechanical solution for fast planar slides, limit analysis)

Numerical Modelling (soil-reinforcement interface, non-isothermal multiphase flow, coupled THM problems, DEM of unsaturated assemblies, Material Point Method)

Geo-structure performance (piles, dam foundations, nuclear waste engineered barriers, road embankments, earth dams, flood embankments, rapid slides, railway bridge heaved by gypsum crystal growth)

Geotechnical design (risk analysis, safety factor in discontinuous rock, parameter estimation in geotechnical back-analysis, pre-compression design for secondary settlements, tunnel face reinforcement)