Lyesse Laloui#
| Membership Number: | 6760 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lms/prof-lyesse-laloui/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6119-6471 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyesse-laloui-6b52b6112/recent-activity/all/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2006 Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL
- Since 2022 Vice President Europe, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
- Since 2021 Full Member Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2018 - 2020 Honorary Director, International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics, Nanjing, China
- 2016 - 2019 Advisory Professor, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
- Since 2014 Founder and Editor-In-Chief Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment – Elsevier
- 2013 - 2014 Distinguished Adjunct Professor, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- 2012-2022 Director Civil Engineering Section, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL
- Since 2008 Director, Laboratory for Soil Mechanics, Geo-engineering and CO2 Storage, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL
- Since 2007: Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Energy geostructures
- Biomediated soils and grouting
- Smart urban design
- Geotechnical engineering
- Soil mechanics
- Geothermal energy
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Honours and Awards
- 2023 European Innovation Council (EIC) Grant
- 2022 Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN), Romania
- 2022 Eshbach Lecture - Northwestern University, USA
- 2022 Doctorate Honoris Causa, Heriott-Watt University, U.K.
- 2022 Vienna Terzaghi Lecture, Austrian Geotechnical Association
- 2020 Proof of Concept Grant (PoC-ERC), European Research Council (ERC)
- 2020 Kersten Lecture, ASCE, American Society of Civil engineering, USA
- 2018 Advanced ERC Grant, European Research Council
- 2018 30th Roberval Award
- 2008 Excellent Contributions Award, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, for significant contributions in research, academic activities, and professional service in the interdisciplinary area of Geomechanics
