BSc. in Civil Engineering, 1977, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, MSc. in Civil Engineering, 1981, from Coppe/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and PhD. in Civil Engineering, 1987, from the University of Oxford (UK). Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Honorary Member of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS, 2012). Recipient of the IGS Award in two occasions from the International Geosynthetics Society. Scientific Merit Award from the Brazilian Presidency (2008). Mercer Lecturer (IGS/ISSMGE) 2006-2008. Manuel Rocha Lecturer (Portuguese Geotechnical Society) in 2015. Recipient of the Terzaghi Award 2014 from the Brazilian Geotechnical Association. Recipient of other 47 awards. Past editor of the journal Soils and Rocks, Associate Editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Geosynthetics International, Environmental Geotechnics and International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering. Reviewer of papers submitted to several international journals. Assessor of research sponsoring agencies in Brazil and overseas. Member of organizing committees and of advisory committees of several international conferences. Lecturer of several courses on geosynthetics in different countries. Has over 350 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Eight papers published in international journals received awards. Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Brasília, Brazil, since 1987.