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Giuseppe Buscarnera is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, where he also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. He specializes in Geotechnical Engineering and has a pronounced interest in the constitutive modeling of geomaterials, mechanics of unsaturated soils, and the application of chemo-mechanics to porous rocks. His research emphasizes the theory of material stability in geo-engineering problems, focusing on fracture and crushing of granular materials, natural hazards, slope stability analyses, and landslide forecasting. He completed his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, and his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Prof. Buscarnera has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and the ALERT PhD Prize. He contributes regularly as a reviewer for multiple academic journals in the field of Geotechnical Engineering and is a member of the Italian Geotechnical Association.
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