Dr. David Solans Roa

Assistant Professor

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Biography

David Solans Roa is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. He specializes in geotechnics with a focus on numerical modeling related to geotechnical infrastructure under static and seismic loading conditions. David graduated from the University of Chile in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering. He has eight years of industry experience as a project engineer and geotechnical leader at IDIEM Arcadis Chile, where he worked on various projects associated with geotechnical engineering and underground structures. In 2016, he joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, where he obtained a Master’s in Soil Mechanics Engineering and a PhD in Computational Geomechanics in 2023.

Research Interests

Requirements for Imperial College London

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:125
Overall
Required:125
Prerequisites
Materials Science Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering Physics Chemistry
Application Checklist
  • Personal statement
  • CV/resume
  • Official university transcripts
  • Two academic or professional references
  • Application fee (£90)
Specialization Notes

Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.