Prof. Alexander M. Puzrin

ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND

Prof. Alexander M. Puzrin

ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND

Biography

Alexander M. Puzrin is Professor and Chair of Geotechnical Engineering at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is engaged in the constitutive modeling of geomaterials and the analysis of progressive and catastrophic failure in soils, with applications to onshore and offshore slope stability problems.  His other interests are in applications of novel sensor technologies to geotechnical monitoring and in assessment and mitigation of geotechnical eco-hazards. Professor Puzrin has been involved as an expert and consultant in large-scale onshore and offshore geotechnical projects in the UK, the US, Switzerland, Mexico, Russia, Israel, Azerbaijan and Papua New Guinea.

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