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Oosterhout, Geert Peter Van was born on August 24, 1969 in Eersel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Son of Kees Peter Van Oosterhout and Joke Isabella Bogaarts.
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Geert Peter Van Oosterhout, Dutch civil engineer, consultant. Achievements include design of tuning mass dampers for the London Eye; development of full-scale test facility for tunnel linings; first to quantify assembly stresses in segmented tunnel linings; research in tunnel-borne vibration transmission in soft soil. Member of Royal Dutch Institute Engineers.
Education
Master of Science with honors (honorary), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 1996.
Career
Student assistant Delft University, 1990—1992, assistant professor, 1992—1996. Research fellow Building Research Establishment, Watford, England, 1994. Project manager The Netherlands Organization Building and Construction Research, Delft, 1996—2000, head department dynamics, 2001, head department civil infrastructure, since 2001.
Deputy director Iv-Infra, Papendrecht, Netherlands, since 2005. Chairman research commission on structural behavior shield driven tunnels Center Underground Construction, Gouda, since 2002.
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Member of Royal Dutch Institute Engineers.
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Married Stefanie Pamela Heijnen, August 8, 1998.
