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Lyesse Laloui, (born 1963) is a Swiss engineer and Professor at EPFL, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is Chair full Professor of Soil Mechanics, Geo-Engineering and CO2 Storage at EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory[1]
Lyesse Laloui | |
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Lyesse Laloui receiving an honorary doctorate in 2022 | |
| Born | 29 July 1963 Skikda, Algeria |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | École centrale Paris |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geomechanics |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Thesis | "Modelisation du comportement thermo–hydro–mecanique des milieux poreux anelastique (1993) |
| Website | www |
Laloui is active in the fields of geomechanics, sustainability and geo-energy. His work explores the multiphysical behaviour of energy geostructures, sustainable soil stabilisation, the behaviour of shales, radioactive waste disposal and carbon capture and storage. His efforts have led to publication of 13 books, over 370 journal publications and four patents.[2]
Recognized as one of the world's top ranked scientists in field of Engineering and Technology,[3] Laloui is the current vice-president for Europe of the ISSMGE, the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering[4] and Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment.[5] A full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences,[6] Director of ACUUS, the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space[7] and recent recipient of two Doctorate Honoris Causae in Engineering from Heriot-Watt University,[8] and from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca,[9] he is also the founding partner of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China[10] and has co-founded several start-ups including Geoeg,[11] Medusoil,[12] Nesol[13] and Enerdrape.[14] Since 2017 Lyesse Laloui acts as an ambassador of Lausanne Montreux Congress (LMC) which brings together the experts from the economic region of Lausanne and Montreux.[15] In 2024 he was elected to the Academia Europaea.[16]
Laloui studied civil engineering at Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics, Algiers in 1987 before moving to France, where he obtained an Advanced Master in Soil and Structural Mechanics from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1989. In 1993 he completed his PhD titled: "Modelisation du comportement thermo–hydro–mecanique des milieux poreux anelastique "with honours: "Summa cum laude".
Joining EPFL in 1994 as a Research Fellow, he became a professor in 2006. In the years 1999-2001 he acted as a president of the EPFL Assembly and a member of the ETH-Rat Board. In 2008 he and was appointed the head of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory (EPFL). In 2012 he was appointed as the director of EPFL Civil Engineering Section and in 2014 became a member of the Direction of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of EPFL.
In 2014 Lyesse Laloui established and became the editor-in-chief of the international journal Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment at the Elsevier publishing house. He created the Chair "Gaz Naturel" - Petrosvibri –dedicated to underground CO2 sequestration and is a Honorary Director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in Nanjing, China. In 2021, Lyesse Laloui was appointed as the European Vice President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). Between 2007 and 2020 he was adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. and advisory professor at Hohai University. between 2016 and 2019.[17] Laloui acts as a chairman of advisory committee for the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.[18]
Laloui has collaborated or supervised numerous researchers[19] including:
Honorary lectures
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