[12/24] Piotr Osinski has been awarded a PhD degree from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Piotr’s external PhD supervisor was Professor David Toll, Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR)
Piotr Osinski has been awarded a PhD degree from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Piotr, from the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Civil Engineering, was co-supervised by Professor Eugeniusz Koda (Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences) and Professor David Toll (IHRR Co-Director). His thesis was titled “The influence of water saturation state on slope stability conditions” (Wpływ stanu nasycenia gruntów na warunki stateczności skarp).
Piotr was an academic visitor at Durham University in 2014. He worked closely with Professor Toll on research relating to the EPSRC funded iSmart project and later collaborated in the EU COST action TU1202 “Impact of climate change on engineered slopes for infrastructure”.
Dr Osinski’s PhD thesis has been recognised as making a significant contribution to the geotechnical field and has been awarded a special distinction.
Matziaris, V., Osinski, P., Vimalan, J., & Koda, E. (2023). Soil water retention curve of silty sand–experimental investigation using different laboratory methods. 8th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2023). In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 382, p. 25005). EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338225005
Osiński, P. (2018). Laboratory temperature conditions as factor influencing pore water pressure readings in unsaturated triaxial tests. In R. Cerkal, N. Březinová Belcredi, & L. Prokešová (Eds.), MendelNet 2018: proceedings of 25th International PhD Students Conference: 7-8 November 2018, Brno, Czech Republic (pp. 452–457). Mendel University in Brno. https://mendelnet.cz/pdfs/mnt/2018/01/94.pdf
Osiński, P., Matziaris, V., & Koda, E. (2017). Soil water retention behaviour of granular soil - modified pore pressure transducer tests. In R. Cerkal, N. Březinová Belcredi, L. Prokešová, & P. Vacek (Eds.), MendelNet 2017 :proceedings of 24th International PhD Students Conference : November 8 and 9, 2017, Brno, Czech Republic (pp. 796–801). Mendel University in Brno. https://mendelnet.cz/pdfs/mnt/2017/01/07.pdf (awarded best paper prize)
Osinski, P., Toll, D., & Koda, E. (2016). Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 9, p. 11008). EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911008
Toll, D. G., Asquith, J. D., Hughes, P. N., & Osinski, P. (2016). Soil water retention behaviour of a sandy clay fill material. Procedia engineering, 143, 308-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.039
Toll, D. G., J. D. Asquith, A. Fraser, A. A. Hassan, Grace Liu, S. D. N. Lourenço, Joao Mendes, T. Noguchi, P. Osinski, and R. Stirling. (2015). Tensiometer techniques for determining soil water retention curves. In Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific conference on unsaturated soil (pp. 15-22). Leiden, the Netherlands: CRC Press/Balkema. https://doi.org/10.1201/b19248
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