Jorge G. Zornberg

Jorge G. Zornberg is Professor and Joe E. King Chair in Engineering in the geotechnical engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 35 years' experience in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. He is also one of the pioneers of geosynthetics.[1]

Biography

Jorge G. Zornberg earned his M.S. from PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

In 2001, Zornberg received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers under the National Science Foundation.[2]

Zornberg was president of the International Geosynthetics Society from 2010 to 2014.[3] Also, he chairs the Technical Committee on Geosynthetics of the Geo-Institute of ASCE (2018).[4] Prof. Zornberg has authored over 500 technical publications.[5]

Zornberg participated in the design of retaining walls, transportation facilities, mining lining systems and hazardous water containment facilities as a consulting engineer. He also conducts research on geosynthetics, soil reinforcement, unsaturated soils, liner systems and numerical modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems as part of his academic experience.[1]

Awards
  • Mercer Lecture Award, 2015–16, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and International Geosynthetics Society (IGS).[6]
  • Distinguished Lecturer 2015, 33rd Annual Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA May 1, 2015.[7]
  • Recognized with the “Zornberg Lecture,” an honorary lecture established in 2019, by the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) in recognition of Dr. Zornberg’s “major contributions to the geosynthetics discipline.”
  • Best Paper Award 2019, Geotextiles and Geomembranes Journal, Elsevier. Awarded for the paper “A New Generation of Soil-geosynthetic Interaction Experimentation.” Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier.
  • Best Paper Award 2021, Honorable Mention, Geosynthetics International journal, awarded for the paper “Use of Geosynthetics to Mitigate Problems Associated with Expansive Clay Subgrades.” Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 279-302.

References
  1. "Jorge G. Zornberg, Ph.D., P.E." www.caee.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  2. "2001 Presidential Early Career Awards Announced". The White House, President George W. Bush. 26 June 2002. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  3. "History – IGS". www.geosyntheticssociety.org. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. "Geosynthetics - Committees". Committees. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  5. "Jorge G. Zornberg, Ph.D., P.E." www.caee.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  6. "Dr. Kerry Rowe to Present the 2018/19 Mercer Lecture – IGS". www.geosyntheticssociety.org. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  7. "Distinguished Lecture Series | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
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