M.A. (Miguel) Cabrera PhD MEng
M.A. (Miguel) Cabrera PhD MEng
Profile
Miguel Angel Cabrera is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Soil Mechanics at the section of Geo-Engineering at TU Delft, working in the physical modelling of land instabilities and soil-structure interaction systems.
Research interests
Miguel’s research is in the area of geotechnical engineering with a focus on complex, multiphase, geophysical and environmental flows, and soil-fluid-structure interaction systems. His interests lie in linking the fundamental understanding of such physical processes with the current and future challenges of the natural, living and built environment. Towards this end, he develops and use a combined approach between physical modelling, advanced measuring techniques, and numerical modelling.
Academic background
Miguel holds a Bachelor on Civil Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009) and a Master in Geotechnical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (2011). In 2016, Miguel received his PhD from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria, working on the simulation of granular flows in rotating systems an sponsored by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship through the MUMOLADE project. From 2016 to 2022 Miguel was appointed as Assistant and then Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Since August 2022, Miguel joined the section of Geo-Engineering at TU Delft.
Expertise
Publications
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2023
Collapse dynamics of two-dimensional dry and immersed granular columns of elongated grains
Nathan Coppin / Michel Henry / Miguel Cabrera / Emilien Azéma / Frédéric Dubois / Vincent Legat / Jonathan Lambrechts
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2021
Is the Grain Size Distribution a Key Parameter for Explaining the Long Runout of Granular Avalanches?
Miguel Cabrera / Nicolas Estrada
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Prizes
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2022-11
Dejando Huella
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2021-9
Bienal prize on research
Awarded for the work entitled "The Mocoa Event on March 31 (2017): analysis of \\ & a series of mass movements in a tropical environment of the Andean-Amazonian Piedmont"
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2012-9
Marie Curie ESR Fellowship
MUMOLADE Project
Ancillary activities
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2024-10-01 - 2026-10-01