During the ALERT Annual Meeting held in Aussois in the last week of September, Katia Boschi, DICA research fellow in the Structures and Environment section, received the Ioannis Vardulakis PhD Prize.
The prestigious international recognition was established by the ALERT Geomaterials association to reward the dissemination of scientific research carried out by doctoral students in the field of soil, rock and concrete mechanics. It is awarded every year by an international jury that evaluates the best candidates who defended their thesis in the previous calendar year.
Katia won the award with her doctoral thesis entitled “Permeation Grouting in Granular Materials – From Micro to Macro, from Experimental to Numerical and Vice versa”, with which she obtained the title of European Research Doctor with Honors in Structural Engineering , Seismic and Geotechnical at our University in 2022.