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Robert Gilbert joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1993 and holds the Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professorship in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering. He is an established expert in assessing and managing risk, consulting on a variety of high-profile projects including flood protection in New Orleans, the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, and nuclear waste disposal in Nevada, as well as offshore oil and gas facilities worldwide. Gilbert was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Award by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for his service on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ External Review Panel for forensic analysis of the levee failures following Hurricane Katrina. In 2011, he received the Norman Medal, the highest award for an ASCE journal paper, and in 2016, he received the E.B. Burwell Award for his work with the National Science Foundation on the 2014 Oso landslide in Washington.
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