Dr Wout Broere is professor of Underground Space Technology at Delft University of Technology and a Fellow of the International Society of Trenchless Technologies ISTT. His research interests range from trenchless technologies, large diameter tunnelling, site investigation and foundation engineering, to the use of underground space. He has published extensively on these topics and supervised over 300 BSc, MSc and PhD students.

 

Dr Broere is currently Editor-in-Chief for Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, a member of ISSMGE TC204 on Underground Construction in Soft ground and past-Animateur of ITA WG20 on `Urban Problems – Underground Solutions’. Together with the Dutch Center for Underground Construction COB he manages the research programme Futureproof Tunnels, aimed at tackling the challenges in monitoring, maintaining and refurbishing aging underground infrastructure.