42nd Annual Conference

Jhon Silva Castro

University of Kentucky


Jhon Silva-Castro was born on August 9, 1972 in Zipaquirÿ, Colombia, South America to Pedro Silva and Trinidad Castro. He attended the Universidad Nacional deColombia in Bogotÿ, Colombia, and was awarded a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Civil Engineering. Upon graduation, he was working for two years as field engineering in road and tunneling construction. Later he attended to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotÿ, Colombia, and was awarded a Master of Scienciae in Geotechnical engineering. After five years working in mining related jobs, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky to attend the University of Kentucky to study Mining Engineering. He worked as both a research and teaching assistant to Dr. Braden Lusk. While in graduate school, he was awarded the Most Outstanding Graduate Student in the Mining Engineering Department in April, 2011 and had been a member of both SME and ISEE since 2008. He was awarded PhD in Mining Engineering in December 2012, and has been appointed as Assistant professor since Aug 2013 at the University of Kentucky.

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