Obituary: Professor Tom Schanz

It is with great regret that the Environmental Geotechnics panel have to record the death of Professor Tom Schanz, Head of Department on Foundation Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics at Ruhr University (Bochum, Germany), who passed away unexpectedly on 12 October 2017 on his way back home.

Professor Tom Schanz was born on the 24 May 1962 in Darmstadt, Germany. He studied Civil Engineering and Geology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany (October 1982–October 1988), graduating with a diploma in Civil Engineering. He graduated as Dr. Sc. Tech. from ETH Zurich in May 1994 and had a habilitation and venia...