Speakers

  • The 3rd Blight Lecture
    The positive history of an error. Modelling the heave of a nuclear power station

    Eduardo E. Alonso
    Emeritus Professor, UPC, Barcelona 
     

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Plenary Lecture
    Effects of thermal cycles on soil behaviour: theoretical and experimental studies

    Charles W. W. Ng
    Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    A Unified Two Independent Stress Variable Approach to Shrink-Swell and Collapse

    Sandra Houston
    PhD, PE, G. DE, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University, USA

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    When nature meets technology: AI-informed discovery of root–soil physical interactions

    Anthony K. Leung
    Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    Seismic Compression of Unsaturated Soils

    John S. McCartney 
    Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, Professor and Department Chair,  Department of Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    Effects of microstructure on thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of geomaterials

    Jean-Michel Pereira
    Professor, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    New challenges in experimental unsaturated soil mechanics

    Enrique Romero  
    Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    Milos, the minerals island and its important asset: Bentonite

    Michael Stamatakis
    Emeritus Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    Plant-based hydrological reinforcement of slopes

    Alessandro Tarantino
    Emeritus University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (UK)

    BIO AND ABSTRACT

  • Themed Lecture
    Calibration of BBM Parameters using the Modified State Surface Approach

    Xiong Zhang
    James A. Heidman Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, United States

    BIO AND ABSTRACT