CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Eduardo ALONSO PÉREZ DE ÁGREDA
Date of birth: 6th of September 1947
Nationality: Spanish
Present position: Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Institution: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Barcelona.
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.
Address: Gran Capitán s/n, Edificio D-2, 08034 Barcelona
Phone: +34-93-4016866/4017250 Fax: +34-93-4017251
e-mail: eduardo.alonso@upc.edu
QUALIFICATIONS
Civil Engineer Universidad de Madrid 1969
Ph D Northwestern University, USA 1973
Diploma in Subsurface Hydrology Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña 1976
APPOINTMENTS
1969-1971 Civil Engineer Rodio. Spain
1971-1973 Research Student Northwestern University. Evanston-Illinois
1973-1974 Research Associate McGill University. Montreal
1974-1986 Associate Professor Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC). Barcelona
1976-1979 Director of Research School of Civil Engineers. Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona (UPC). Barcelona
1980-1984 Dean Civil Engineering School, Barcelona
1983-1986 Vice-Rector for Research Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC). Barcelona
1985-1994 Director Dpt. Geotechnical Engineering & Geosciences, UPC. Barcelona
1996-1999 Director Dpt. Geotechnical Engineering & Geosciences, UPC. Barcelona
1986-Present Full Professor Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Barcelona
1999-present Coordinator Ph.D. Program in Civil Engineering of the Dpt. Geotechnical Engineering & Geosciences, UPC. Barcelona
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
– Chairman of the TC25 Committee on Landslides. International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (1997-2001).
– Chairman of the TC6 Committee on Unsaturated Soils. International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2001-2014).
– Member of the Advisory Panel of the Journal “Géotechnique”, ICE, United Kingdom (2009-2011). Honorary Editor for 2015-2018.
MAIN TEACHING INTERESTS AND COURSES DEVELOPED (Undergraduate and graduate levels)
Theoretical soil and rock mechanics; foundation design; geotechnical construction; reliability in geotechnical engineering; tunnels and underground excavations, earth and rockfill dams.
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Reliability and risk in Geotechnical Engineering; behaviour of partially saturated soils; expansive soils and rocks; numerical analysis of geotechnical problems (soils and rocks); field measurements and geotechnical backnalysis; slope stability; earth and rockfill dams.
PUBLICATIONS
Over 450 papers published in National and International Symposia, specialized research books and learned journals.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Over 200 hundred consulting jobs in Spain and abroad involving deep excavations, nuclear power stations, diaphragm walls, ground improvement techniques, design of shallow and deep foundations, slope stability, underpinning of structures, site investigation reports, breakwaters, concrete and earth dams, tunnels, underground nuclear storage.
AWARDS, HONOURS
- 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”. 1994
- 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”. 1995.
- MEDALLA NARCÍS MONTURIOL. Generalitat de Catalunya. Granted for Technologic and Scientific Merit (2000)
- 2nd Conferencier COULOMB. Comité Français de Mécanique des Sols et Travaux des Fondations. Paris. Octobre 2003
- 11th BUCHANAN Lecturer. Texas A&M University. November 2003
- CRAMPTON PRIZE. Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). Distinction of the ICE granted to the Géotechnique paper: “A review of Beliche dam”. 2006
- 10th SOWERS Lecturer. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007
- 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
- GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH MEDAL (2009). Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). This is the maximum Distinction of the ICE in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. Granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Gas flow through clay barriers”. 2008
- GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH MEDAL (2010). Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). Granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Thermo-hydraulic characterisation of soft rock by means of pulsed heating tests”. 2009
- 10th “Arrigo Croce” Lecturer: “Crystal growth in Geotechnics”. Italian Geomechanics Society. Rome, 2011
- First Heim Lecture: “Deformation analysis of landslides. Progressive failure, thermal interactions and rate effects”. International Symposium on Landslides, Banff, Canada, 2012
- 30th Rocha Lecture. Portuguese Geotechnical Society, Lisboa, 2013
- 3rd Kezdi Lecture. Hungarian Geotechnical Society, Budapest, 2013
- 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”. Award given in 2014
- GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH MEDAL (2014) Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). Granted to the Géotechnique paper: “Compacted soils: Initial state, microstructure and constitutive modelling” published in 2013.
- TOURING LECTURE (2014). British Geotechnical Association.
- Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (1995-Present)
- Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona (2006-Present)
