Lyesse Laloui

Lyesse Laloui
Born (1963-07-29)29 July 1963
Residence Lausanne, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Fields Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Geomechanics
Institutions École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Alma mater École centrale Paris
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Lyesse Laloui is a Chair professor of Soil Mechanics, Geo-engineering and CO2 storage at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering[1] of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL). He is the director of the Civil Engineering Section. Laloui is also adjunct full professor at the Pratt School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) as well as advisory professor at the department of Civil engineering and Transportation of Hohai University, China. He is the vice-chair of the Technical Committee TC101 of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment.[2] He is also Associate Editor of Frontiers in Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization, which is a section of Frontiers in Energy Research.

Biography

Lyesse Laloui is an Algerian born Swiss scientist. He obtained the Master’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1987 at the ENTP Algiers. He then continued his studies at École centrale Paris with an advanced Master in Soil and Structural Mechanics in 1989, and a PhD degree (Summa cum laude) in 1993. After a post-doc at École centrale Paris, he joined EPFL in 1994 where he is a full professor in civil engineering.

Dr. Lyesse Laloui is chaired professor and Director of the Geomechanics Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, where he developed a large expertise in the areas of Geomechanics, Geoengineering and CO2 sequestration. He is also Director of the EPFL Civil Engineering Section. He is also adjunct professor at Duke University (USA).

Dr. Lyesse Laloui is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment.[2]

His main research interests are in Geomechanics (Constitutive and numerical modelling of multiphysical coupling processes, laboratory advanced testing), and Environmental and Energy Sustainability (Geomechanics for unconventional energy, CO2 Geological Sequestration). He is currently running projects in the field of unconventional energy for Chevron Energy Technology Co. (USA) as well as Sinopec (China).

Research areas

Professor Laloui has developed research approaches in several areas in the field of geo-engineering. He has focused on the fundamental study of soils and man-made geo-systems with an emphasis on the mechanics of various interacting multi-scale and multi-physics phenomena. He combines theoretical approaches and experiments, while on the other hand applying the concepts of porous material mechanics to geotechnical engineering. His research activities have produced results in computational geomechanics, environmental geomechanics, and the mechanics of multiphase porous materials.

Awards and honors

Laloui is a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences, i.e.:

Publications

Professor Laloui has over 250 publications including 202 papers listed in ISI Science Citation Index with an h-index factor of 38. He is a book series editor for Wiley-Iste and member of the editorial board of six international journals.

Books

Edited books

References

  1. ↑ "ENAC - Faculté Environnement Naturel, Architectural et Construit - EPFL". enac.epfl.ch.
  2. 1 2 "Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment".
  3. ↑ "ISTE". www.iste.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Computer Applications In Geotechnical Engineering - Proceedings". cedb.asce.org.
  5. ↑ "Environmental Geomechanics".
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