Professor Andre P. Assis
André Assis is Professor of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. He graduated at the UnB (1980), worked as geotechnical engineer (1980-1984) and got his PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada (1990). In 1996-1997, he spent his sabbatical leave at the Mackay School of Mines, Univ. of Nevada at Reno, USA, and in 2005-2006 he was visiting professor at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), in Switzerland. His research interests and consulting are on tunnelling, rock mechanics, rock-fill dams and geotechnical risk management. He has already supervised more than 120 MSc and PhD theses, and published around 300 papers in international and national journals, congresses and symposia. He was president of the Brazilian Tunnelling Committee, CBT (1998-2002) and of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, ITA (2001-2004), chairperson of the ITA Committee on Education and Training (2007-2013) and president of the Brazilian Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ABMS (2012-2016). Presently, he is Vice President of the ISSMGE for South America and Caribeans, consultant of Anglo American Mining Co. and Institute of Technological Research (IPT), and member of the Review Dispute Board of the Sao Paulo Metro Co. He is one of the authors of the book Risk Management in Complex Structures.
