On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Theodoros Triantafyllidis the Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum under the lead of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Torsten Wichtmann organized the Symposium: Recent developments of soil mechanics and geotechnics in theory and practice (https://www.bgu.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bgu/aktuelles/news00283.html.de).
GuD actively participated in the Symposium, which also saw inspiring keynote lectures of Prof. Andrew Whittle (MIT), Prof. Jun Yang (University of Hong Kong) and Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja (Stanford University). On behalf for all colleagues from GuD we want to congratulate Prof. Triantafyllidis for his impressive impact on the development of geotechnical engineering and Prof. Wichtmann for organizing this event.