Prof. Lyesse LALOUI
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne
Dr. Lyesse Laloui is chaired professor and Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, where he developed a large expertise in the areas of energy and environmental geomechanics. He is also Director of the EPFL Civil Engineering Section as well as adjunct professor at Duke University, USA. His main research interests are in Soil Mechanics (Constitutive and numerical modelling of multiphysical coupling processes, laboratory advanced testing), and Environmental and Energy Sustainability (Nuclear waste underground storage, Petroleum Geomechanics, CO2 Geological Sequestration, Geothermal Energy). His most known contributions address the mechanics of unsaturated soils and shales, the thermo-mechanics of clays as well as the development of the thermo-active foundations technology, with over $18 million in research grants, awards and endowments to his credit. He edited 8 books and published over 250 peer reviewed papers. His work is cited more than 2600 times with an h-index of 25. He is the editor-in-chief of the international journal “Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment” (Elsevier). He was a guest editor for 6 journal special issues, and the Honorary Editor and Chairman of the Geotechnique Symposium in Print 2013 on Bio- and Chemo-mechanical Processes in Geotechnical Engineering. He is a member of the Editorial board of 7 international journals. He gave keynote and invited lectures at more than 25 leading international conferences and has been involved as an expert in several international projects. He is the recipient of the “Excellent Contributions Award” of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics in 2008, the “2012 Vardoulakis Lecture” from the University of Minnesota and the “12th G.A. Leonards Lecture” from the University of Purdue in 2014.
