Bright Sparks Lecture - 10th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics in Daejeon, Korea
The YMPG in collaboration with the Organising Committee for the 10th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics in South Korea would like to announce the winners of the Bright Spark Lecture Award to two distinguished young geotechnical engineers: Dr. Kil-Wan Ko and Dr. Orestis Adamidis. They are both invited to give keynote lectures on 3 June 2022.
- Dr. Kil-Wan Ko, Postdoctoral Researcher/Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Structural inertia impacts on system deformation under strong earthquakes: Case studies using dynamic centrifuge tests" - Dr. Orestis Adamidis, Associate Professor and Tutoring Fellow in Engineering, University of Oxford, UK.
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Shallow strip foundations on liquefiable layers: Physical modelling insight"
The Bright Spark Lecture Award was established to promote young members of the ISSMGE to play a major role in various international and regional conferences. Recipients of this award are invited to give a keynote lecture at ISSMGE conferences. All Technical Committee conference organisers and Member Society conference organisers are encouraged to select Bright Spark Lecturers at their conferences. Details regarding the award can be found on the ISSMGE website: https://www.issmge.org/the-society/awards/bright-spark-lecture-award.
We invite everyone, especially young geotechnical engineers, to come and enjoy the lectures. We hope these lectures can inspire and motivate us further to excel in our beloved field, geotechnical engineering.
Winners Bio
Dr. Kil-Wan Ko
Kil-Wan Ko is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.S. (2015), M.S. (2017), and Ph.D. (2020) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). After his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the KAIST Geo-Centrifuge Center (2020-2021). His fields of interest are dynamic soil-structure interaction (SSI), soil liquefaction, landslide and slope stability, geo-hazard mitigation, and risk analysis. He has used a variety of methodologies in his research, including theoretical, experimental (centrifuge modeling), and numerical approaches. He has participated in many research projects associated with dynamic SSI problems on shallow foundations, pile foundations, and earth retaining structures, soil liquefaction, and physical modeling techniques. Currently, his research focuses on dynamic SSI problems on liquefiable soil layers using case histories, centrifuge, and numerical modeling. Throughout his academic and research career, he has authored or co-authored 17 publications in international journals and 16 publications in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings.
Dr. Orestis Adamidis
Orestis Adamidis studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), specialising in geotechnical engineering. For his diploma thesis, he numerically investigated the rocking response of slender structures on rigid, elastic, or inelastic ground. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he completed a PhD examining the response of shallow founded structures in the event of earthquake induced liquefaction, using dynamic centrifuge experiments. Afterwards, he went to ETH Zurich with a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, where he focused on element testing of liquefiable materials and numerical modelling of liquefaction-related problems. Since 2020, Orestis has been appointed Associate Professor at the department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Catherines College. His research interests include earthquake-induced liquefaction, soil-structure interaction, and soil response under partially drained conditions.
