Lyesse Laloui

Lyesse Laloui, born July 29, 1963, in Skikda, Algeria is a Swiss engineer, chair professor of soil mechanics, geo-engineering and CO2 storage at the School of architecture, civil and environmental engineering of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the head of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory,[1] director of the Civil Engineering Section[2] at the EPFL and a full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2021.[3] In 2022 Lyesse Laloui appeared in the Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology released by Research.com. He has ranked #17 in Switzerland and #923 in the world.[4]

Lyesse Laloui
Laloui in 2019
Born (1963-07-29) 29 July 1963
Skikda, Algeria
NationalitySwiss
Alma materÉcole centrale Paris
AwardsERC Advanced Grant, ERC Proof of Concept Grant
Scientific career
FieldsCivil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geomechanics
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Thesis"Modelisation du comportement thermo–hydro–mecanique des milieux poreux anelastique (1993)
Websitewww.epfl.ch/labs/lms/

Laloui is the incoming vice-president Europe of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ( ISSMGE)[5] and editor in chief of the Elsevier Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment journal.[6] He is also the founding partner of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China.[7] He co-founded several start-ups such as Geoeg,[8] Medusoil,[9] Nesol[10] and Enerdrape.[11]

Lyesse Laloui is active in the fields of geomechanics, sustainability and geo-energy. His work has led to publication of 13 books, over 340 journal publications and four patents.

Education

Lyesse Laloui obtained his master's degree in Civil Engineering in 1987 at the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics (ENTP) in Algiers. He continued his studies at École Centrale Paris with an advanced Master in Soil and Structural Mechanics in 1989. In 1993 he successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Modelisation du comportement thermo–hydro–mecanique des milieux poreux anelastique".[12] After a post-doc at École Centrale Paris, he joined EPFL in 1994 where he became a Chair Full Professor in civil engineering.

Career

In 2008 he was appointed the head of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory (EPFL). In 2012 he was assigned as the director of EPFL Civil Engineering Section[2] and in 2014 joined the Direction of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)[13] of EPFL.[14] 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.[15] He built the Chair of Petrosvibri – "Gaz Naturel" dedicated to underground CO2 sequestration.[16] He is a Honorary Director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in Nanjing, China. In May 2021 Lyesse Laloui was appointed as the European Vice President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).[17]

Between 2007 and 2020 he was adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Duke University.[18]

Between 2016 and 2019 he was advisory professor at Hohai University.[19]

In Soil Mechanics Laboratory Lyessse Laloui has collaborated with numerous researchers, often conjointly acting as their PhD thesis supervisor, including: Dr Mathieu Nuth, Assistant Professor at University of Sherbrooke, Dr Bertrand François, Assistant Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Alice Di Donna, Assistant Professor at University Grenoble-Alpes, Dr Yafei Qiao, Assistant Professor at Tongji University, Dr Prof. Roman Makhnenko, Assistant Professor University of Illinois, Dr. Anne-Catherine Dieudonné, Assistant Professor of Engineering Geology at Delft University of Technology, Dr Melis Sutman, Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University or Dr Alessandro Rotta Loria, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northwestern University.[20]

Research

Professor Laloui has developed research approaches in several areas of geotechnical engineering.[21] His laboratory studies the multiphysical behaviour of energy geostructures, soil improvement techniques for development of a sustainable solution for soil stabilisation. Other lines of research are behaviour of shales, radioactive waste disposal and carbon capture and storage.[22]

Awards and honors

Laloui is the recipient of the multimillion European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and the ERC Proof of Concept Grant.[23]

ERC Advanced Grant, 2018

Laloui received the ERC Advanced Grant for his project BIO-mediated GEO-material Strengthening (BIOGEOS).

BIOGEOS (2018–2024) focuses on bio-mediated, nature-inspired ground reinforcement and explores multi-physical and highly-applicable processes in Geo-technics. From engineering novel geo-materials at multiple scales, to controlling and mastering bio-inspired soil strengthening.[24]

ERC Proof of Concept Grant (PoC), 2020

In 2020 Lyesse Laloui was awarded the Proof of Concept Grant (PoC) by the European Research Council (ERC) for the project Construction & Environmental Biocementation in Real World Applications (CEBREWA ) .[25]

Other awards

In 2008 Laloui obtained “Excellent Contributions Award” of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics and the “2012 Vardoulakis Lecture” from the University of Minnesota, for significant contributions to the field of geomechanics.[26][27] In 2014 he received the “12th G.A. Leonards Lecture” from the University of Purdue and the “2016 RM Quigley Award” from the Canadian Geotechnical Society for the best paper published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal in 2015.[28][29][30] He obtained the 30th Roberval Award in 2018 for the book "Mécanique des sols et Roches" ( ISBN 978-2-88074-961-3), co-authored with L. Vulliet and J. Zhao.[31] In 2020 he delivered Kersten Lecture at the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) during Geo-congress 2020 in Minneapolis [32] and in 2021 received the "Vienna Terzaghi Lecture" at the 13th Austrian Geotechnical Conference.[33]

Distinctions

Keynote Lectures

Lyesse Laloui is a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences, his recent lectures were:

In 2020

  • Kersten Lecture at the Geo-congress 2020 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA[34][35]
  • Distinguished Lecture at the Northwestern Sustainability Summit, Chicago, USA[36]
  • Keynote lecture, 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils - Lisboa, Portugal[37]

In 2019

  • State-of-the-art lecture, seventh International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Glasgow, UK[38]
  • Keynote lecture, XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Reykjavik, Island[39]
  • Keynote lecture, 1st Mediterranean Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (MYGEC), Bodrum, Turkey[40]
  • Keynote lecture, DECOVALEX 2019 Symposium on Coupled Processes in Radioactive Waste Disposal and Subsurface Engineering Applications, Brugg, Switzerland[41]
  • Keynote lecture, 1st Computational & Geoenvironmental Geomechanics for Underground and Subsurface Structures Symposium. Nancy, France[42]
  • Keynote lecture, XVI Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVI PCSMGE), Cancun, Mexico[43]

Memberships

He was also active in various Scientific and Expert Committees, most recent:

  • 2018-19 - Chair of the Evaluation Panel of Civil and Geological Engineering R&D Units of Portugal Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT)[44][45]
  • 2016-2020 - Executive Committee representative for the Government of Switzerland in the International Energy Agency Greenhouse R&D Technology Collaboration Program[46]
  • 2017- 2020 - Member of the executive committee of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE) – Leader of Work Package Geo-Energies[47]
  • 2017- 2018 - Member of the Scientific Council of CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine (Italy)[48]
  • 2013 - 2017 vice-chair of the TC101 “Laboratory Stress Strain Strength - Testing of Geomaterials” of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2013–present; core member 2010–2013). Member of the selection committee for the Bishop Lecture[49][50]

Publications

Laloui has over 340 publications listed in Scopus database and was cited more than 7000 times with an h-index factor of 46, including 2 highly cited papers according to the Web of Science portal.[51][52]

Selected works
  • L., Laloui; Rotta Loria, A. (2020). Analysis And Design Of Energy Geostructures: 1st Edition: Theoretical Essentials And Practical Application. Academic Press. ISBN 9780128206232.
  • L., Laloui; Ferrari, A. (2018). Energy Geotechnics. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-99669-1.
  • L., Laloui; Ferrari, A. (2017). Advances In Laboratory Testing And Modelling Of Soils And Shales (ATMSS). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-52772-7.
  • L., Laloui; Di Donna, A.; Kong, G. (2016). 能源地下结构 Energy Geostructures. China Architecture and Building Press. ISBN 978-7-112-19661-6.
  • Vulliet, L.; Laloui, L.; Zhao, J. (2016). Mécanique des sols et des roches. Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes. ISBN 978-2-88074-961-3.
  • Laloui, L.; Di Donna, A. (2015). Géostructures Énergétiques. Hermes science Publications. ISBN 978-2-7462-4577-8.
  • Laloui, L.; Di Donna, A. (2014). Energy Geostructures: Innovation In Underground Engineering. Wiley-ISTE. ISBN 9781848215726.
  • Laloui, L. (2014). Bio- And Chemo- Mechanical Processes In Geotechnical Engineering. ICE Publishing. ISBN 9780727760531.

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Annex

Interviews

Laloui, Lyesse (5 November 2019). "Un livre veut favoriser le développement des géostructures énergétiques" (Interview). Interviewed by Anne Baecher. Radio télévision suisse.

Laloui, Lyesse (29 August 2017). "L'invité d'actualité (vidéo) - Lyesse Laloui" (Interview). Interviewed by Romaine Morard. Radio télévision suisse.

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