Mauro Giuliano Sottile
Nation/Region-nominated Member
Argentina
Name: Mauro Giuliano Sottile
Position: Principal Consultant, SRK Consulting; Lecturer, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Birthdate: August 1990
Email: msottile@
Mauro Giuliano Sottile is a Principal Geotechnical Consultant at SRK Consulting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work focuses on advanced numerical and constitutive modelling of tailings storage facilities, including static and dynamic liquefaction, as well as foundations, embankments on soft soils, tunnels and excavations. He has worked on projects in more than 12 countries and has authored more than 40 publications.
He obtained his Civil Engineering degree from Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) and an MSc in Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as an Argentine Presidential Fellow administered by the Fulbright Commission. Since 2017 he has taught postgraduate courses on Soil Behaviour and Numerical Methods in Geotechnics at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
In 2024 he received the "Bright Spark Lecture Award" from ISSMGE and delivered the lecture at the XVII PCSMGE. He is actively involved in the Argentine Society for Geotechnical Engineering (SAIG), where he has served as Treasurer for two consecutive terms (2023–2025 and 2025–2027). He was a member of both the Organizing and Scientific Committees of CAMSIG 2025 and is a former member of the YMPG group.