Federica Sandrone

from 2008: Engineer at SBB-Infrastructure, responsible for Tunnels Management and Maintenance  from 2007: Assistant for the courses "Tunnel Engineering" and "Underground Construction Technology"  2004-2008: PhD Student (Structure Doctoral Program) at LMR-EPFL PhD degree: February 2008 at EPFL with a thesis entitled "Analysis of pathologies and long term behaviour of the Swiss National Road tunnels"  2003: Assistant at the Georesources and Landscape Department of Politecnico di Torino (TUSC). Main research domains: in situ surveys, monitoring measurements analysis and numerical modelling on tunnels with ageing problems and/or collapses, settling and subsiding in chalk pit, instability of slope dumps, interaction between cutting-tools of a TBM and the rock-mass   2003: Graduate at the Politecnico di Torino in Geotechnical Engineering with a Master Thesis about “Stability controls and refurbishment operations on a damaged railway tunnel”