Plaxis Researcher Dr. Vahid Galavi Wins Prestigious Award

October 13, 2010

Dr. Vahid Galavi, researcher at Plaxis bv, has won the prestigious George Stephenson Medal, issued by the Institution of Civil Engineers in London for his paper entitled “A multilaminate framework for modelling induced and inherent anisotropy of soils”. The research work, which resulted in the prizewinning paper, has been performed for his PhD project at the Technical University of Graz under supervision of Prof. Helmut Schweiger. Meanwhile, Vahid has worked as a researcher at Plaxis on various interesting projects, among which groundwater flow, fully coupled flow-deformation analysis, unsaturated soil behaviour and dynamic analysis.

The prize was handed over to Vahid in a special ceremony at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London on Friday 8th October 2010.

We like to congratulate Vahid with this achievement and we are happy that he has chosen to continue his excellent research work as part of the Plaxis team.

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