Gaetano Elia

Dr Gaetano Elia is a chartered Civil Engineer in Italy since 2001 and gained his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the Technical University of Bari (Italy) in 2004. He was appointed a lectureship in Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Newcastle University (UK) in 2009. From 2017 he is a tenure-track Associate Professor at the Technical University of Bari and Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University.

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Dr Elia's research spans a variety of topics in computational modelling and soil science. His particular expertise is in theoretical and applied soil mechanics, with specific insight in advanced soil constitutive modelling and numerical simulation of wave propagation and soil dynamics problems. His current research is mainly focused on the numerical assessment of the resilience of geotechnical structures during extreme events, including the analysis of natural and engineered slopes subjected to extreme rainfalls and the performance-based design of shallow foundations, excavations and tunnels in static and dynamic conditions. Dr Elia acts as reviewer for a number of international journals and for EPSRC-UK. He is currently member of the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT), the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED), the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and the Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI).

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