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Dr Chris Haberfield BSc, BE(Hons), PhD, FIEAust, CPEng, RPEQ Principal, Golder Associates, Melbourne, Australia Biography Dr Chris Haberfield is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with Golder Associates Pty Ltd working out of their Melbourne, Australia office. He concurrently holds the position of Research Associate with the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He has over…

Prof Ross W. Boulanger PhD, PE, NAE Professor and Director, Center for Geotechnical Modeling. University of California at Davis, U.S.A. Biography Professor Ross W. Boulanger is the Director of the Center for Geotechnical Modeling in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his PhD and MS degrees in…

Sissy Nikolaou, PhD, PE, D.GE, F.ASCE Earthquake Engineering Group Leader, Materials and Structural Systems Division, Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology  Biography Dr. Sissy Nikolaou serves as the Earthquake Engineering Group Leader for the Materials and Structural Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She has over 25 years of global…

Dr George Gazetas Emeritus Professor of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece Biography George Gazetas has been for 30 years Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, following an academic career in the US, where he taught at SUNY-Buffalo, Rensselaer (RPI), and Case Western Reserve University. His main research interests…