Cristina de Hollanda Cavalcanti Tsuha

Cristina Tsuha is professor at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of São Paulo (São Carlos, Brazil). She graduated from the Institute Maua of Technology (São Paulo, Brazil) in 1994. She worked as civil engineer in engineering companies during several years (1995 2001). She has been involved in different projects related to geotechnical site investigations, foundations, and earth structures.Cristina Tsuha has got her MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (2003 and 2007). Her Ph.D research topic was related to the study of helical piles using centrifuge tests conducted at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées in France. In 2009 she did a Postdoctoral research on the cyclic behaviour of deep foundations at the Technical University of Grenoble (this research program is an international collaboration with Imperial College of London).Her main line of research has been the study of Foundations Engineering, with emphasis on the following topics: (i) reliability analysis of pile and shallow foundations, (ii) helical pile foundations, (ii) physical modelling of pile behaviour in centrifuge and calibration chamber. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)