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Stefan Ritter is a geotechnical engineer at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Oslo, Norway. He received his BSc and MSc (Geotechnics and Tunnelling) from the University of Leoben, Austria. Throughout his Master’s research, he was a Marshall Plan Fellow at MIT (USA) working on risk-informed decision making related to sustainable reuse of tunnel muck. He subsequently worked as a tunnelling engineering in Austria. After two years in industry, Stefan joined the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2013 to undertake doctoral studies into the response of surface structures to tunnelling-induced settlements which was awarded the Philip Turner Prize for excellence in geotechnical centrifuge testing. He joined NGI in 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow and now works as a senior specialist. Since February 2023, Stefan works as an adjunct associate professor at OsloMet. He is responsible for the 10 ECTS MSc course urban geotechnics. Stefan’s research interests include underground construction in soft soil, soil stabilisation, the interaction between the ground and the built environment, better integration of the urban underground space into urban planning and instrumentation and monitoring to better understand the performance of geotechnical structures.
