Awards
- Editor's Choice Award: “Effect of principal stress rotation and intermediate principal stress changes on the liquefaction resistance and undrained cyclic response of Ottawa sand” by Tastan & Carraro, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2022
- Editor's Choice Award: “Influence of particle size distribution on the proportion of stress-transmitting particles and implications for measures of soil state” by Liu, O’Sullivan & Carraro, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2021
- Student Choice Award (SCA) Nominee, Imperial College Union, 2020
- Student Academic Choice Award (SACA) Nominee, Imperial College Union, 2018
- ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2005
- Hugh W. & Edna M. Donnan Scholarship, Purdue University, 2004
- PhD Research Invited for Presentation, 83rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board – USUCGER Doctoral Student Research in Transportation Geotechnics, 2004
- CNPq Doctoral Fellowship, CNPq (Brazilian Research Council), 2001
- Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Purdue University, 2001
- 1st Prize for "Use of Lime-Stabilized Soft Clay Layers as Shallow Foundation Elements", 4th Pan-American Conference on Undergraduate Research, 1994
External Positions
- ASTM Technical Work Group (Invited Member), ASTM D18 Committee on Soil and Rock (New standard on Specimen Reconstitution Methods for Geotechnical Laboratory Testing of Soils - WK79561), ASTM International, 2023
- Scientific Committee, 8th Int. Symp. on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Porto2023, 2022 - 2023
- Technical Committee, 7th Int. Symp. on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow2019, 2017 - 2019
- Committee D18 on Soil and Rock, ASTM International, 2015 - 2021
- Local Organising Committee, 1st Int. Conf. on Rammed Earth Construction, ICREC 2015, Earth Building Assoc. of Australia; Pritchard and Francis; Univ. of Western Australia, 2013 - 2015
- Executive Committee, Tailings and Mine Waste conference series, Golder Associates, Knight Piesold, MWH, AMEC, SRK Consulting, Tetra Tech, Colorado State Univ., Univ. of British Columbia, Univ. of Alberta, 2009 - 2011
- Organising Committee, Geo-Denver 2007, ASCE, 2006 - 2007
- Soil Properties and Modeling Committee, ASCE
- TC221 Tailings and Mine Waste Committee, ISSMGE
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Member, Associacao Brasileira de Mecanica dos Solos, 2018 - 2019
- Member, ASTM International, 2015 - 2021
- Associate Member, ASCE, 2002 - 2020
- Member, British Geotechnical Association
Editorial Boards
- ASCE Journal of Geotech. and Geoenv. Eng., Associate Editor
- Geotechnique, Advisory Panel Member, 2018 - 2020
- ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Associate Editor, 2017 - 2021