Dr. Dariusz Wanatowski is Associate Professor in Geomechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK. In January 2013 he was appointed as Head of Department of Civil Engineering at University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.
Dr. Wanatowski graduated with MSc Eng in Civil Engineering from Poznan University of Technology, Poland in 1999. Between 1999 and 2001 he worked as a teaching and research assistant at the same university where he was lecturing soil mechanics and foundation engineering courses. He was also involved in several research projects, including effects of various improvements of subgrade on its bearing capacity and experimental investigation of engineering properties of various organic soils. He obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2006. Prior to joining the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics of the University of Nottingham in February 2006 Dr. Wanatowski also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at NTU on effects of strength and stiffness anisotropy of geomaterials on the stability and deformation of tunnels.
Dr .Wanatowski’s general research interests are focused on experimental geomechanics, particularly strain softening and instability behaviour of granular soils, strain localization in sands, strength and stiffness anisotropy of geomaterials, and effects of intermediate principal stress on the strength and deformation characteristics of soils. He has published more than 30 journal papers and more than 30 international conference papers.
Dr. Wanatowski serves as a Member of two Technical Committees of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, TC-208 on Stability of Natural Slopes and TC-303 on Coastal and River Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation. He is Co-Editor of Geotechnical Engineering, Journal of SEAGS and AGSSEA. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the first ICE’s Gold Open access journal, called Geotechnical Research.
