Michele Jamiolkowski

Michele B. Jamiolkowski (born July 21, 1932 in Stryj , Second Polish Republic ) is a Polish-born Italian civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering. He has been Professor of Geotechnics at the University of Turin since 1969 , where he has now retired.

He is also a consulting engineer and was chairman of the engineering company Studio Geotecnica Italiano in Turin, of which he has been a member since 1964.

From 1990 to 2001 he was chairman of the international commission for the rescue of the Leaning Tower of Pisa , and it was also during this time that it was renovated (according to plans by John Burland ). Since 1985 he has been geotechnical consultant for the project of a planned suspension bridge over the Strait of Messina and consultant for the planned liquid gas tanker terminal (LNG terminal) in Brindisi . He is since 2003 member of the Flood Commission of Venice ( MOSE ) and since 2004 in the consortium to restructure the risk of tipping the bell tower of San Marco in Venice. He also dealt with the issue of soil remediation in the Chernobyl area .

Since 1991 he has been a corresponding member of the Turin Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he became an external member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 2001 he received the Terzaghi Award . He is an external member of the Polish Academy of Sciences . He is an honorary member of the Japanese Geotechnical Society. In 2013 he gave the Rankine Lecture .

From 1994 to 1997 he was President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering . He is editor of the International Journal of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and co-editor of Soil and Rock International Journal .

Web links

• Homepage in Turin
• Jamiolkowski and the suspension bridge over the Strait of Messina at pbs, English