Lyesse Laloui

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 Storage at EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory

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.

Recognized as one of the world's top ranked scientists in field of Engineering and Technology, Laloui is the current vice-president for Europe of the ISSMGE. International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. A full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and recent recipient of two Doctorate Honoris Causae in Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, and from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, he is also the founding partner of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China and has co-founded several start-ups including [https://geoeg.net/ Geoeg], [https://www.medusoil.com/ Medusoil], [https://www.nesol.net/ Nesol] and [https://enerdrape.com/en/ Enerdrape]. 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. Provided by Wikipedia