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Dr. Dexter Hunt

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Dexter V. L. Hunt has a position as a lecturer and currently works at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. He obtained both his MEng (Hons) degree and PhD from Birmingham in 2000 and 2005, respectively. His globally cited PhD looked at improving predictive methods for ground movements associated with multiple tunnel construction. From 2003 to 2012 he worked on a number of multi-million pound Interdisciplinary, Multi-disciplinary, and Trans-disciplinary grants progressing through the ranks of research associate, research fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Research Investigator, Co-Investigator to Principal Investigator. In 2011, he secured a Marie Curie scholarship for visiting scholar Nikolai Bobylev. In 2012, he was awarded a Birmingham Fellowship (equivalent to a Stewarts’ scholarship) allowing him to continue his research work for a further four years progressing to full-time Lecturer in 2016. He currently specializes in the areas of Underground and Sustainable Construction. He is on the Editorial Board of two journals (Sustainability and Civil Engineering), and has organized and presented at national/international conferences and workshops. Additionally, he has delivered invited Talks and is a regular referee for 14 international journals.

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Dexter V. L. Hunt has a position as a lecturer and currently works at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. He obtained both his MEng (Hons) degree and PhD from Birmingham in 2000 and 2005, respectively. His globally cited PhD looked at improving predictive methods for ground movements associated with multiple tunnel construction. From 2003 to 2012 he worked on a number of multi-million pound Interdisciplinary, Multi-disciplinary, and Trans-disciplinary grants progressing through the ranks of research associate, research fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Research Investigator, Co-Investigator to Principal Investigator. In 2011, he secured a Marie Curie scholarship for visiting scholar Nikolai Bobylev. In 2012, he was awarded a Birmingham Fellowship (equivalent to a Stewarts’ scholarship) allowing him to continue his research work for a further four years progressing to full-time Lecturer in 2016. He currently specializes in the areas of Underground and Sustainable Construction. He is on the Editorial Board of two journals (Sustainability and Civil Engineering), and has organized and presented at national/international conferences and workshops. Additionally, he has delivered invited Talks and is a regular referee for 14 international journals.