Biography

Matteo Oryem Ciantia is a Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Science and Engineering at Dundee University since August 2017. He completed his PhD at the Politecnico di Milano in spring 2013. From Feb 2013 until Sept 2015 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Before moving to Dundee Matteo spent two years at Imperial College as he was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Imperial Junior Research Fellowship. His background is in laboratory testing, strain hardening plasticity framed constitutive modelling, the finite element method (FEM) the discrete element method (DEM). He has published approximately 30 journal and conference papers and the current focus of his research is to apply the discrete element method (DEM) to boundary value problems relevant to civil engineering by using high performance computing. Since 2017 he is a member of the ISSMGE Technical Committee 105 on Geo-Mechanics from Micro to Macro and 211 on Ground Improvement. Matteo is also a BGA and ICE member. Between 2010 and 2013, Dr. Ciantia was in charge of the “Laboratory of Geomaterial Mechanics and Geotechnical Models” in the Department of Structural Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano University. Matteo is currently in the OC of the Chalk 2018 international conference.