About Bruno Zuada Coelho

Bruno Zuada Coelho is an expert at Deltares, specializing in the geotechnical performance and resilience of critical infrastructure. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology, where he focused on the dynamics of railway transition zones in soft soils. His expertise spans geotechnical aspects of railway systems, dynamic numerical modelling, soil–structure interaction, and the development of data-driven and hybrid modelling approaches.

Bruno has held international research positions, including a Marie-Curie fellowship at the University of Cambridge, where he contributed to advancing the Material Point Method for large deformation soil–water–structure interaction, and a visiting researcher position at Chalmers University of Technology, where he developed constitutive models for cyclic loading of soft soils.

Driven by scientific curiosity and a commitment to resilient and sustainable infrastructure, Bruno works on the assessment, modelling and optimisation of assets such as railway tracks, pipelines, flood defences and embankments. His research also encompasses subsurface characterisation, data fusion and the integration of AI techniques into geotechnical engineering workflows. Passionate about bridging numerical modelling and AI, he firmly believes that the future of infrastructure analysis lies in hybrid models capable of learning from data while grounded in physics-based understanding.