Antonio Gens
Antonio Gens is a Spanish civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Gens studied at the Technical University of Madrid (graduated in 1972), received his master's degree from Imperial College in London, where he received his doctorate in civil engineering in 1982. After some time in the construction industry, he went to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona , where he became Professor of Geotechnics in 1988. From 1999 to 2006 he was head of the geotechnical and geosciences department and from 2002 to 2006 he was on the university's executive board. In addition, he has decades of experience as a consulting engineer.
He deals with numerical geomechanics, partially saturated soils and geo-environmental technology. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) on Environmental Geotechnics (TC-5).
In 2000 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors in Spain. He received the Chandra Desai Medal from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), the George Stephenson Award, the Quigley Award, and twice the Telford Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers . In 2007 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering).
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- ↑ Brief biography ( Memento from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gens, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |