• Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Fred J. Benson Chair
Marcelo Sanchez

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Equivalent to a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering), Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain – 2004

Research Interests

    • Soil mechanics
    • Coupled THMG (Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical & Geochemical) analysis in geomechanics
    • Unsaturated soils
    • Expansive clays
    • Numerical modeling in geomechanics
    • Constitutive modeling of soils & rocks
    • Nuclear waste disposal
    • Hydrate bearing sediments
    • Soil cracking; C02 sequestration
    • Stochastic analysis