Alejandro is a Civil Engineer with over 25 years of international experience in structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He finished his studies in 1997 at the University of Buenos Aires and submitted his thesis entitled “Non-linear numerical modelling of reinforced concrete structures subjected to cyclic loads”. He has completed more than 25 post-graduate courses and has obtained 16 certifications in seismic engineering, material science, geotechnical earthquake engineering and data science.
He worked as a structural consultant or reviewer in both mining and civil infrastructure projects, where he developed sound expertise in reliability-based analysis, seismic design and constructability analysis of underground structures and mining infrastructure, from pre-feasibility stages to closure and post-closure stages.
Before joining SRK, he was a consultant and director of the firm Verri & Sfriso SA (V&SSA), a niche consulting firm specialized in soil-structure interaction problems, where he participated until its merger with SRK in 2009, in several projects of structural design of special foundations, pavements, tunnels and underground works.
Alejandro has also participated in several major environmental rehabilitation projects and mine closure studies, where he prepared seismic and hazard stability studies for tailings dams, dumps, and leach pads, drafted the seismic design criteria and project execution plans (PEP), and prepared risk-based cost estimates. In addition, he was the design leader and the engineer of records (EOR) for the closure and environmental rehabilitation of the Pascua-Lama Tunnel on the border between Argentina and Chile.
He has developed extensive field experience in reliability-based seismic analysis and design of tailing and rockfill dams, waste rock dumps, tunnels, retaining walls, buried pipelines and infrastructure works, and has conducted site response studies and probabilistic seismic hazard assessments at project sites in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Armenia, Guinea, South Africa, Madagascar, New Zealand and Australia.
Alejandro has been a professor of the composite materials mechanics chair at the school of engineering of the University of Buenos Aires from 2004 to 2014. He was also an assistant professor in the structural dynamics courses of the master’s degree in structural engineering at the National Technological University (UTN), and a visiting professor in the structural analysis courses of the postgraduate program in architecture at the Torcuato Di Tella University.
Alejandro has published 16 research articles, of which he has authored eight conference papers, has delivered eleven lectures at international conferences and workshops and has attended 20 international congresses. He has been an enthusiastic computer programmer since the days of the Algol and Fortran languages and has developed several open-source tools for performance-based earthquake engineering.
