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2nd Balushev Lecture Award

On 13 March 2024, Professor Dietmar Adam received the "2nd Balushev Lecture Award" at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, the highest award of the Bulgarian Society for Geotechnical Engineering (BSSMGE).

Handing over the certificate for the 2nd Balushev Award by Professor Chavdar Kolev to Professor Dietmar Adam.

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Awarding of the 2nd Balushev Lecture Award to Professor Dietmar Adam by Professor Chavdar Kolev.

Handing over of the Golden Medal of the University to Professor Dietmar Adam.

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Awarding of the University's Golden Medal to Professor Dietmar Adam by Professor Ivailo Ivanov.

The award was handed over by Professor Chavdar Kolev, President of the Bulgarian Geotechnical Society. The laudatory speech was given by Professor Andrey Totsev, Managing Director of BSSMGE and Professor of Geotechnics at the local university. The award is named after Professor Balush Balushev, the founder of modern soil mechanics in Bulgaria, who followed in the footsteps of Professor Karl von Terzaghi.

To his surprise, Professor Ivailo Ivanov also awarded Professor Adam the "Golden Medal of the University" for his commitment to deepening relations between the universities in Vienna and Sofia and for his services to the education and training of young Bulgarian scientists who have worked at his Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at TU Wien over the last two decades.