Invited Lecturers
We are excited to announce that the following Invited Lecturers will be presenting at the XVI ECSMGE:
| Professor Pierre Delage
Ecolé des ponts ParisTech, France
Title of talk: Thermo-hydro-mechanical Issues in Claystones: Application to Radioactive Waste Disposal at Great Depth
Pierre Delage is professor of geotechnical engineering at Ecole des ponts ParisTech. His research interests include the relationship between microstructure and the behaviour of geomaterials (soft clays, deep marine sediments, shales, loess, chalk, oil sand). He also works on unsaturated soils and multiphase geomaterials and on the thermal behaviour of clays and claystones, in link with radioactive waste disposal at great depth. Other application fields include the behaviour of oil reservoir chalk, soil contamination, the stability of chalk quarries, collapsible loess and, more recently, the mechanical behaviour of Martian simulants in relation with the forthcoming InSight NASA mission. He is Honorary editor of Géotechnique Letters and Board member of various journals (Computers and Geotecnics, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Geomechanics and Geoengineering. He is the Chair of the Technical Oversight Committee of ISSMGE and past Vice-Chair of TC106 (Unsaturated soils) and of the French Geotechnical Association (CFMS). |
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| Dr Mike Long
University College Dublin, Ireland
Title of talk: Developments in the use of Geophysics in Geotechnical Engineering of Soft Soils
Mike Long is a civil engineering graduate of University College Cork and subsequently University College Dublin. Having spent 11 years or so in industry he has been a lecturer in geotechnics at University College Dublin since 1996 and a visiting professor at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. His main research interests comprise the characterisation of natural soils and the behaviour of deep basements in urban areas. |
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| Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Title of Talk: Vulnerability Assessment of Buildings Exposed to Co-Seismic Permanent Slope Displacements
Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and took his PhD in Ecole Centrale Paris. He has more than thirty years of intensive academic, research and professional activities in civil, earthquake and geotechnical engineering. He is Chairman of the Technical Committee “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Associated Problems” (TC203), of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), President of the Greek Society of Earthquake Engineering and Vice Chairman of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering. Head of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University (1997-2001) and Chairman of the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology in Greece (ITSAK) are among his numerous administrative positions. Coordinator of several important EU research projects namely EUROSEISTEST (http://euroseis.civil.auth.gr) and SYNER-G (www.syner-g.eu) and participant in numerous European, national and international research projects. His main fields of interest are in geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, site effects and microzonation, lifeline earthquake engineering, vulnerability and risk assessment of structures and systems. He has been state-of-the-art and keynote lecturer in numerous international conferences, author of more than 450 scientific papers (h factor 25), and reviewer in numerous scientific journals and international research projects. He is member of the editorial advisory board in Springer (series of Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering), member of many international societies in earthquake and geotechnical engineering and member of national and international committees for seismic standards. |
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| Professor Helmut F. Schweiger
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Title of talk: On the Merits of using Advanced Models in Geotechnical Engineering
Prof. Helmut F. Schweiger is Head of the Computational Geotechnics Group at the Institute for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of the Graz University of Technology in Austria and has over 25 years of experience in developing and applying numerical methods in geomechanics. He obtained his Ph.D. form the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. His main research interests are the development of multilaminate models for soils, application of Random Set Theory to finite element analysis and the assessment of the influence of the constitutive model for solving practical problems, in particular deep excavations, deep foundations and tunnels. Application of numerical methods in accordance with the design approaches defined in Eurocode7 is another topic he is involved in. His group was a member of several research projects funded by the European Commission. His research is reflected in more than 200 publications in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and invitations to keynote and plenary lectures at International Conferences on Soil Mechanics and Computational Geotechnics. He serves on a number of editorial boards of international journals and was chairman of 6th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Engineering. As a member of several committees Helmut is involved in formulating guidelines and recommendations for the use of finite elements in practical geotechnical
engineering.
In 2005 he received the "Excellent Contributions Award Regional" of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, the "Best Paper Award" of the Japanese Geotechnical Society and in 2010 the "George Stephenson Medal" of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK for a paper published in Geotechnique. |
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| Joek Peuchen
Fugro, Netherlands
Title of Talk: Re-assessment of geotechnical conditions after an
offshore well incident
Joek Peuchen is a geotechnical engineer at Fugro, Netherlands. He has over 30 years of experience in geotechnical site characterization, geohazards, special foundation solutions, offshore & onshore, mainly for the global energy sector and major infrastructure. His main technical interests are in integrated site characterisation, with particular focus on geotechnical parameter values. Other areas include innovative development of in-situ test equipment and knowledge transfer by guest lectures at the Fugro Academy, Delft University of Technology and other institutes. Mr Peuchen is author or co-author of more than 40 publications on geotechnical topics, invited speaker at international specialty conferences including keynotes, and peer reviewer of journal and conference publications. Professional memberships include geotechnical societies and ISO standardization. |
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| Professor Dietmar Adam
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Title of talk: Ground Improvement versus Hybrid Foundation and Deep Foundation: Three Case Histories of European Significance
Professor Dietmar Adam is Head of the Institute of Geotechnics at Vienna University of Technology and Professor for Ground Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics (first chair Prof. Karl von Terzaghi). He has about 25 years of wide academic, research and professional experience in civil and geotechnical engineering. He obtained his PhD from Vienna University of Technology. His main research interests are theoretical and experimental soil dynamics, compaction and compaction control, ground improvement, innovative materials, low-pressure grouting, ground freezing, and thermo-active foundations, structures and tunnels.
His research is reflected in more than 240 publications in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and more than 200 invitations to presentations, keynote and special lectures at International Conferences on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Between 1992 and 2009 he received several awards for his scientific achievements, amongst others the Austrian state award for sustainability in climate protection for transportation technologies.
He was chairman of the 15th Danube-European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering and member of the organizing committee of all Austrian National Conferences in Geotechnical Engineering since 1997. As a member of several national and international committees he was and is involved in formulating guidelines and recommendations in particular for earthworks and earth structures in practical geotechnical engineering. He is secretary of the Austrian National Society of ISSMGE, expert in the commission of large dams and authorised expert in tunnelling.
Moreover, he is owner of a consulting company and together with his staff he has engineered about 900 projects in more than 40 countries all over the globe.
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