Geotechnical Engineering
Site investigation, soil mechanics, foundation engineering, slope and embankment stability, and numerical modelling, including natural hazards and landslide risk.
Geotechnical Engineer & Researcher
// infrastructure · soil mechanics · AI
Fabián is a geotechnical engineer and researcher at Deltares working across site investigation, soil mechanics, monitoring, numerical modelling, natural hazards and applied research. His work combines conventional geotechnical engineering with AI and data methods to support infrastructure and ground engineering decisions.
// focus areas
Site investigation, soil mechanics, foundation engineering, slope and embankment stability, and numerical modelling, including natural hazards and landslide risk.
CPT and ground data, field investigation, laboratory data, fibre optic sensing, instrumentation and infrastructure monitoring.
Machine learning, subsurface schematisation, Python workflows, geotechnical software and data-driven engineering.
// selected work
SchemaGAN
AI-based geotechnical subsurface schematisation from limited CPT information.
Railway Monitoring
Dark fibre sensing, accelerometers and machine learning for railway vibration assessment.
Geotechnical Risk
Probabilistic landslide assessment, field mapping and risk-informed engineering decisions.