Dr. Gelu Madear graduated from the most prestigious Mining Institute in Southeastern Europe, (today called the University of Petrosani, Romania) with a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering in 1990. He also received an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, followed by a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from the University of Petrosani, Transylvania, Romania.
Dr. Gelu Madear had held long term faculty appointments as Lecturer at the University of Petrosani, Romania, where he was also Director of the M.Sc. Course in EIA – Environmental Impact Assessment and Professor/ Director Geomechanics of the Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek.
For more than 10 years he worked in the consultancy sector in the UK and currently is anIndependent International Consultant in Computational Geomechanics.
Dr. Gelu Madear has over 30 years’ experience in Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering including academic, design and consulting, with expertise in geomechanical and geotechnical design, including numerical methods and probabilistic approaches of underground structures, in various ground conditions – from jointed rock masses to frozen grounds; used various rock mechanics and geotechnical software packages, inclusive of ITASCA – FLAC2D/ 3D, UDEC, PLAXIS 2D/ 3D, ROCSCIENCE – RS2, RS3, Examine2D, Examine3D, CivilFEM, SALOME MECA/ CODE ASTER. Implementation of Discrete Fracture Networks in Computational Geomechanics (FLAC3D) using FracMan, especially in Block Cave Mining.
He has excellent interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to work with a team from diverse disciplines, companies and nationalities.