Prof. Wei Wu, BOKU, Austria

is Head of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at BOKU. He is a renowned expert in laboratory testing and constitutive modelling of granular materials and in numerical simulation of geotechnical engineering problems.

Prof. Wu publishes more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and more than 100 publications in conference proceedings. Prof. Wu is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Acta Geotechnica” and the “Springer Series of Geomechanics and Geoengineering”. Before joining BOKU in 2003, Prof. Wu held leading positions in major engineering companies in Europe for 10 years. His experience in industry and in EC funded research in FP6 and FP7 makes him the ideal person to coordinate this ITN.