Environmental geomechanics

Laurent Vulliet is Professor of Soil Mechanics and Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). He got his PhD at EPFL, lectured at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA) and worked in a Swiss geotechnical consulting firm before joining EPFL in 1994. His teaching and research interests cover in particular the modelling of geomaterials, including the various coupling effects, leading to applications in environmental geomechanics and in natural risk management.

Lyesse Laloui is Senior researcher and Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He obtained his PhD at the Ecole Centrale Paris. He worked at the BRGM (French leader group in surface and subsurface geosciences) and the Ecole Centrale Paris before moving to the EPFL. His background covers contributions in the areas of geomaterial modeling, testing and computational (finite element) methods. He recently co-edited a book on thermal response tests.

Bernard Schrefler is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Padua and Secretary General of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine. He obtained a D.Sc. at the University of Wales, an honorary doctorate from the St. Petersburg State Technical University and from the University of Technology of Lodz. He has published more than 300 papers on structural engineering, soil mechanics and environmental mechanics, as well as on technology for nuclear fusion, and has written or edited 20 books.