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M.A.C. Koenders is a physicist who has worked in industry, academia and as a consultant. His expertise is in the mechanics of granular media. He has collaborated with physicists, civil engineers, chemical engineers, mathematicians and geologists. He has some 200 (co)-authored papers in refereed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings relevant to these subjects. He has also been a substantial fund-raiser to benefit the progress of the subject and collaborated on many projects to further the understanding of aspects of granular mechanics.

In industry he was active in drawing up geotechnical filtration rules for the soil mechanics community. In other work on civil engineering he has had a long-standing collaboration with the Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, Karlsruhe to provide a theory on the mechanics of unsaturated soils.

In chemical engineering he collaborated to describe and improve filtration processes, especially the mechanics of cake formation. He was awarded the gold medal of the Filtration Society (2003) for his contributions to oscillated filtration.

In geology he contributed to the understanding of processes under volcanoes, especially co-authoring papers on magma infiltration into dilatant granular layers.

In mathematics he introduced the concepts of structures formation in granular materials and non-Newtonian flow processes through granular masses.

He has supervised 13 PhD students. He is a member of the Institute of Physics and currently associated with the University of Southampton.