Dr. Denis Kalumba is currently a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Geotechnical Engineering Group at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a BSc Civil Eng. from Makerere University (Uganda) and an MSc Eng. in Geotechnical Engineering from the Universities of Cape Town. As a British Commonwealth Scholar, he completed his PhD degree in 2006 at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom (UK). His research was on remediation of metal contaminated soils using electro-kinetics. After which, he took up a research fellow position at the same university until 2008. The research project he worked on, involving dewatering of liquid wastes using electro-osmosis, was funded by UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
His main areas of interest are in: Geotechnical Materials Testing and Characterisation, Soil Improvement, Application of Soil Models in the Analysis of Geotechnical Problems, Waste Minimisation, Foundation Design and Analysis.
He has published over 50 scientific papers in journals and conferences on various problems in geotechnical engineering. He regularly reviews manuscripts for various national and international scientific journals, and is also a member of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA), South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) and the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
Dr. Kalumba was in 2013 appointed to the national working committee TC98/SC 006 of the South African Bureau of Standards set up to draft the new South African Geotechnical Design Standard. A consultant on several projects, Dr Kalumba also takes keen interest in promoting the exchange of information between industry and academia.
