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With supporting letters from Prof. Guy Houlsby and his former student, Prof. Giang D Nguyen, Dr Nguyen was given a special chance to carry out research in the geotechnics section at Imperial College London where is home to many leading figures, Sir Alec Skempton and Professor Alan Bishop. Dr Nguyen obtained a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London, working under the supervision of Professor Catherine O'Sullivan. The title of this work is: "Micromechanics of shear wave propagation and non-linear stiffness of granular materials". The thesis was examined by Prof. Jamie Standing (Imperial College London) and Prof. Matthew Coop (University College London). This study was sponsored by a Vied-Newton PhD scholarship and a Dixon scholarship from Imperial College London. Dr Nguyen is grateful to Prof. Malcolm Bolton and Prof. David Potts for their inspiration through their love of research. Dr Nguyen is deeply grateful to Prof. Richard Jardine for delivering lectures in Vietnam after his 56th Rankine lecture.
The Rankine Lecture is often referred to as the Nobel prize of geotechnics.