Our alumni

Alumni News

• Danette Tan of Imperial College is the winner of the 2022 BGA Masters prize for her entry “Assessing life extensions of ageing infrastructure" Find out more.
• 2023 Ground Engineering Rising Star Award:  Four alumni from our MSc courses have been nominated for the 2023 Ground Engineering Rising Star Award.  Congratulations to  Iñigo Garmendia Odriozola at CGL,  Stamatina Marinatou at Atkins, Arabel Vilas Serin at Typsa, and Leidy Bejarano at Ferrovial Construction!!
• 2023 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.
• Graduation: We were delighted to see the MSc class of 2017-2018 at their graduation on May 8 2019, see pictures of the class including prize winners .
• MSc Graduate Wins Ground Engineering Rising Star Award: Aliki Kokkinou, Msc year 2013/14, was  awarded the raising star award at the 2017 ground engineering awards:  https://awards.geplus.co.uk/winners-2017
• MSc Graduate Wins the Cooling Prize:  On Feb 28 2018, Joe Newhouse, who completed a MSc in soil mechanics and who now works at Mott MacDonald, was awarded 49th Cooling Prize by the British Geotechnical Association for his paper “Ground movement due to shaft construction” which is based on his MSc dissertation.