Background
Poulos, Harry George was born on April 27, 1940 in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. Son of George and Elene (Zanitotis) Poulos.
consultant Civil and mining engineering educator
Poulos, Harry George was born on April 27, 1940 in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. Son of George and Elene (Zanitotis) Poulos.
Poulos graduated from the University of Sydney, where he took a bachelor"s degree, Bachelor of Science in 1961 and his doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy in 1965. In 1976 he was awarded a higher doctorate degree Doctor of Science from the University of Sydney.
During 1964-1965, he was an engineer at MacDonald Wagner and Priddle. From 1965 he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in 1969, Reader in 1972 and from 1982, Professor at the University of Sydney, where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 1989 he delivered the 29th Rankine Lecture entitled "Pile behavior: theory and application", and in 2005, the Terzaghi Lecture, entitled Pile behavior: Consequences of geology and construction imperfections.
In 2003 he became the Australian civil engineer of the year.
Poulos served in the Australian Standards Committee for pile foundations (2010), was from 1980 to 1995 part of the Council of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS), was from 1982 to 1984 its president, and the Council of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) the vice president for the Asia-Australia region he was in 1989 to 1994. Since 2002 at the Sydney section of the AGS Poulos Lecture in his honor.
He has been involved worldwide in various basic construction projects, such as pile foundations for skyscrapers in Dubai (Burj First Rate (at Lloyd's) Arab, Emirates Towers, the Burj Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the world, where he performed the geotechnical testing), the Docklands Project in Melbourne, or 700 km Egnatia Odos motorway straight through Greece (2001 to 2005), where in particular the earthquakes played a role. Other projects included consultations with various offshore structures such as oil rigs.
He is since 1989 an employee of Coffey Geotechnics, where he held various management positions, he was from 1991 to 1993 Executive Board.
Today he is Senior Principal (2010).
Fellow American Society of Civil Engineers, Institution Engineers of Australia (honorary), Australian Academy of Sciences, Australian Academy Technology Science and Engineering, Order Australia.
Married Maria Langley, November 8, 1964. Children: George, Elena, James, Peter.