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Johan Spross is an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, focusing on geotechnical risk management within the Division of Soil Rock Mechanics. With a background in civil and architectural engineering, he specializes in reliability-based methods to address risks and uncertainties while minimizing costs and resource use throughout the life cycle of structures. He is actively involved in the National Implementation Commission Eurocode 7 and is a member of the ISSMGE TC206, which deals with observational methods, and TC304, focusing on risk management. Additionally, Spross teaches various courses related to geoscience and geotechnical engineering, including Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering, and the Theory and Methodology of Risk and Safety Analysis in Building Sciences. He has also contributed to the Engineering Risk Analysis Group at the Technical University of Munich as a guest researcher from 2019 to 2024. Spross is the director of postgraduate studies in civil and architectural engineering and has extensive experience supervising degree projects and teaching courses at both bachelor and master levels.
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