Biography

Laszlo has graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in Hungary in 1978. After graduation he became an assistant professor at the Geotechnical Department and delivered courses at all university levels at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. In 1988 he moved to Canada with his family and became a senior geotechnical engineer with Trow Consulting Engineers in Sudbury, Ontario, where he was involved in numerous mining projects and participated in INCO’s pilot pastefill research program in Garson, Ontario. In 1996 he presented his technical paper in Colorado, in connection with the development and shear strength parameters of pastefill. In 1996, Laszlo was invited to join a small group of educators in the United Arab Emirates, starting to deliver civil engineering courses to national engineering students in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. In 2011 he moved back to Canada and joined Tetra Tech’s mining group in Toronto until 2017, when he transferred to Wood’s mining group. From 2021 he is a senior principal geotechnical engineer with WSP Canada in Mississauga, Ontario. During the last 13 years, he was involved in many mining and energy related projects from scoping to detailed feasibility level studies for projects in Canada, Spain, Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Turkey, USA, Gabon, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Ivory Coast.