Professor Dr. Miguel Cabrera

Biography

Miguel Angel Cabrera is a lecturer in experimental soil mechanics at the Geo-Engineering section of TU Delft, focusing on the physical modeling of land instabilities and soil-structure interaction systems. His research in geotechnics emphasizes complex, multiphase, geophysical, and environmental flows, as well as the interactions between soil and fluid. Miguel aims to connect fundamental knowledge of these processes with current and future challenges in natural, living, and built environments. He develops and employs a combined approach of physical modeling, advanced measurement techniques, and numerical modeling. Miguel holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009) and a master's degree in Geotechnics from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (2011). In 2016, he completed his PhD at BOKU University, Vienna, Austria, focusing on the simulation of granular flow in rotating systems, sponsored by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship associated with the MUMOLADE project. From 2016 to 2022, he held successive positions of assistant professor and associate professor in physical modeling at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Since August 2022, Miguel has been part of the Geo-Engineering section at TU Delft.

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