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Alumni News

• Danette Tan of 51�Թ��� College is the winner of the 2022 BGA Masters prize for her entry “Assessing life extensions of ageing infrastructure" 
• 2023 Ground Engineering Rising Star Award:  Four alumni from our MSc courses have been nominated for the .  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 
• 2022 Cooling Prize: Congratulations to former MSc student Stan Qi who was awarded the  based on his MSc dissertation.
• 2021 BGA Masters Dissertation  Prize: Congratulations to former MSc student Ana Pirone who was awarded the  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:   "" 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:  
• 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  for his paper “Ground movement due to shaft construction” which is based on his MSc dissertation.