Geotechnics Section News and Events

• The McClelland Lecture 12/09/23 will be given by Professor Richard Jardine as an open to all public event in the Imperial College Great Hall on 12^th September 2023, supported by the ISSMGE and the BGA. Find out more on our website & from the BGA.

• Post-doctoral research position:  A position for a post-doctoral researcher to look at the fundamentals of polymer fluid flow in the pore space has just been advertised with a closing date of August 2023. Details here or contact Prof. Catherine O'Sullivan.
  
  
• Annual Geotechnics Summer Day out 2023: We had a lovely time playing Football and Cricket for our Annual Geotechnics Summer Day out 2023, with our Staff and PhDs being severely beaten by the MSc students!
  
  
• 2023 Ground Engineering Rising Star Award:  Four alumni from our MSc courses were nominated for the 2023 Ground Engineering Rising Star Award.  Congratulations to  MSc alumnus Stamatina Marinatou at Atkins who was awarded the prize. We are really pleased that other MSc alumni Iñigo Garmendia Odriozola at CGL, Arabel Vilas Serin at Typsa, and Leidy Bejarano at Ferrovial Construction were also nominated.

• The 2022 BGA Medal has been awarded to Dr Ken Vinck, Prof Richard Jardine and Dr James Lawrence of Imperial Collegefor their paper “Advanced in situ and laboratory characterisation of the ALPACA chalk research site”. Read more.
  
  
• 2022 BGA Masters prize: Danette Tan, a former MSc student, was awarded the 2022 BGA Masters prize for her MSc dissertation “Assessing life extensions of ageing infrastructure" Find out more.
   
• SUT OSIG One day MSc masterclass 08/06/2023: Since 2010 the Imperial College Geotechnics Group has been arranging, along with the Society for Underwater Technology, a one day “Masterclass course” to be given on Offshore Geophysics and Geotechnical Engineering at Imperial College (Skempton Building). Register to attend In-Person or online here.
  
  
• NUMGE 2023: The 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering will be held at Imperial College London, on the 26 - 28 June 2023.  Register here.

• 2024 Rankine Lecture:  We are delighted that Prof. Lidija Zravkovic has been nominated as the 2024 BGA Rankine lecturer.

• 2022 Cooling Prize: Congratulations to former MSc student Stan Qi who was awarded the 2022 Cooling Prize based on his MSc dissertation.

• 2021 BGA Masters Dissertation  Prize: Congratulations to former MSc student Ana Pirone who was awarded the 2021 British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Masters Dissertation Prize for her dissertation "Geotechnical data integration in the calibration of constitutive models using machine learning and metaheuristics."

• ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Editor's Choice: Congratulations to Antonio Carraro whose paper was selected as Editor's Choice in May 2022:   "Effect of Principal Stress Rotation and Intermediate Principal Stress Changes on the Liquefaction Resistance and Undrained Cyclic Response of Ottawa Sand" by E.O.Tastan and J.A.H.Carraro; Volume 148, Issue 5.
  
  
• 2021 BGA Conference Prize: Congratulations to Tokio Morimoto and Marina Schaider Bortolotto for winning first prize for their poster "Experimental and modelling challenges on temperature effects on granular material" at the BGA annual conference.
  
  
• Revised MSc Curriculum: We are delighted to announce that in the 2021-2022 we are launching a new MSc curriculum including a new module on Geotechnical Infrastructure and  a new specialisation option: MSc in Soil Mechanics with Engineering Geology.  This curriculum was developed reflecting on our experience in teaching MSc students and recognising new challenges that have been posed to geotechnical practitioners in recent years.  Information on the New MSc course can be found in our course flyer.
  
  
• Industrial bursary scheme: The Imperial College Geotechnics Industrial MSc Bursary Scheme was established in June 1996 to provide industrially funded bursary awards to MSc students. Funding normally covers full fees and partial subsistence costs, giving priority to UK based students.  Further details can be found on our bursary group page.  The deadline for the October 2021 entry is fast approaching – MSc applications received by 31 May will be automatically considered for the scheme.
  
  
• MSc Scholarships: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has  30 Departmental Tuition Fee Scholarships ready to award for October 2021.  Applicants for the Soil Mechanics MSc degrees can apply for these scholarships.   Take a look at our scholarships search tool for the full list of available scholarships.
  
  
• £1.5 million grant awarded to develop Sustainable, Flexible and Efficient Ground-source heating and cooling systems (SaFEGround): Dr. David Taborda is leading this UKRI-funded project that aims to decarbonise heating and cooling.   Funding was awarded in May 2021.  Details of this, and other projects funded in this scheme can be found on the UKRI website.
  
  
• Other recent activities, events and news.