Lyesse Laloui
Full Professor
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Fields of expertise
Study of natural and man-made systems with emphasis on the mechanics of various interacting phenomena.
Lecturing in Civil Engineering (soil mechanics, underground seepage, geomechanics) and Mechanics (mechanics of porous media, mixture theory, multiphase flow).
Research in Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials.
Lecturing in Civil Engineering (soil mechanics, underground seepage, geomechanics) and Mechanics (mechanics of porous media, mixture theory, multiphase flow).
Research in Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials.
Biography
Lyesse Laloui is Full Professor at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland where he is Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory and the Civil Engineering Section. He also is honorary director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China.Laloui is a leading scientist in the field of environmental geomechanics, geotechnical and environmental engineering and the mechanics of multiphase, porous materials. He is the recipient of an Advance ERC grant for his BIO-mediated GEO-material Strengthening project. He has written and edited 13 books and published more than 360 peer reviewed papers; his work is cited more than 9000 times. Two of his papers are among the top 1% in the academic field of Engineering. Laloui has received multiple awards, delivered keynote lectures at over 40 international conferences and is a frequent source of expertise for Swiss and international news outlets.
He is the European Vice President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment journal, as well as a founding partner of the international engineering companies Geoeg, Nesol and the start-ups MeduSoil and Enerdrape.
Recent keynote lectures
Keynote lecture, ISSMGE TC308 on Energy Geotechnics, Kiel, Germany, August 2016. Keynote lecture, International mini symposium chubu - New concepts and new developments in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Nagoya, Aichi, Japan May, 2016.
Keynote lecture, 1st International Conference on Geo_Energy and Geo_Environment (GeGe2015), Hong-Kong, December, 2015.
Keynote lecture, Sixth International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Soils, Buenos Aires (Argentina), November, 2015.
Keynote lecture, EAGE Geomechanics and Energy workshop Geomechanical solutions for Geo-Energy issues, Celle (Germany), October 2015.
Keynote lecture, Prague Geotechnical Days 2015 Analysis of a volcanic ash slope subjected to wetting and drying cycles, Prague (Czech Republic), May 2015.
Google citations:
https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=XgJfPH4AAAAJ&hl=frAwards
12th G.A. Leonards Lecture", University of Purdue, 2014.
"Vardoulakis Lecture" - University of Minnesota, 2012.
"Excellent Contributions Award 2008" presented by the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) for excellent contributions in the areas of computational geomechanics, environmental geomechanics and mechanics of multiphase porous materials and their applications for innovative engineering solutions.
Expertise
Rates for Consulting WorksAwards
2016 : RM Quigley Award Winner
2024 : Membership to Academia Europaea : Academia Europaea
2022 : Honoris Causa : Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
2022 : Honoris Causa : Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
2022 : Vienna Teraghi Lecture : Internationally renowned geotechnical engineer.
2022 : 2022 Eshbach Lecture
2022 : Distinguished lecture Northwestern Sustainabilty
2024 : XXIX Károly Széchy Memorial Lecture : Hungarian Geotechnical Society
2025 : John Mitchell Lecture : Deep Foundations Institute (DFI)