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Tomasz Hueckel is an American scientist and engineer, born and educated in Poland. He is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He is also a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Elsevier Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment journal. Tomasz Hueckel is the son of Stanisław Hückel, a professor of maritime, harbor and foundation engineering at Gdansk Polytechnic in Poland. Hueckel is active in the field of multi-physics geomechanics, with applications to underground energy, resource and environmental geomechanics.

Hueckel studied at Polytechnic of Gdańsk, Poland. In 1974 he obtained his PhD degree in Applied Mechanics from the Institute of Fundamental Research in Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 1985 he earned D.Sc. in Physical Sciences from the Polytechnic School and University of Grenoble, France. After research stay at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw he moved to Italy, where he taught at the at the University of Rome and the University of Technology in Milan. Before moving to Duke in 1987, he worked with ISMES, in Bergamo, Italy, on the topic of nuclear waste storage.

Hueckel is the recipient of 2008 John Booker Medal from IACMAG. In 2004 he received the Fellowship of Excellence for Visiting Professors and Researchers from the Government of Catalonia, and the Fellowship from the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique in Belgium in 2003.