DrDavid Solans Roa

Dr Solans is a Teaching Fellow in Geotechnics within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. His area of specialisation is the numerical modelling of geotechnical infrastructure under static and seismic loading conditions.

After graduating from the University of Chile in 2010 as Civil Engineer, BSc and MSc in Geotechnical Engineering, Dr Solans worked in the industry (IDIEM and Arcadis Chile) for about eight years as a project engineer and geotechnical leader for different projects related to mining geotechnical engineering and underground structures. Dr Solans moved to the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London in 2016 obtaining a MSc in Soil Mechanics and Engineering Seismology and a PhD in Computational Geomechanics in 2023.

Research Areas
Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering
Stability of earth dams and tailings storage facilities (TSF)
Geotechnical characterisation of tailings and mine waste materials