Paul Hölscher

Paul Hölscher is senior consultant at Deltares, the Netherlands. After his study Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology he worked for 10 years as a researcher in the field of soil dynamics and pile driving. This work resulted in a PhD thesis on the dynamics of dry and saturated soils. At Deltares he is the specialist in the field of soil dynamics. He worked on earthquake engineering, vibratory comaction, damage and hinderance from piledriving and sheetpile driving, model development, critical trainspeed for the high speed train and the dynamical stiffness of the floating slab, reliability of vibration prediction models and rapid pile load tests. Meanwhile he did also development and consultancy in other fields of geo-engineering such as wave motion in rubblemount breakwaters and caisson breakwaters, shallow cone penetration and microtunnelling. He has been involved in the guidance of many MSc and PhD students.