Alumni GEL

Past PhD Students

  • Dr Regina Fakhretdinova (Nov 2021 – Dec 2025).
  • Dr Mohsen Talebkeikhah (Nov 2020 – Mar 2025).
  • Dr Andreas Möri (Sept 2019 – Sept 2023) – post-doc in the lab 10.23 to 06.24 – now Dam Engineer at Axpo, Switzerland.
  • Dr Alexis Sáez (Dec 2019 – Dec 2023) – now Post-Doc at Caltech with J.P. Avouac.
  • Dr Carlo Peruzzo ( Dec 2018 – March 2023) – now Senior Software Engineer at ResFrac, USA.
  • Dr Dong Liu (Dec. 2016- March 2021) – now Geotechnical Engineer at INGPHI, Swizerland.
  • Dr Federico Ciardo (Feb 2016- Feb 2020) – now Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, USA.
  • Dr Fatima-Ezzahra Moukhtari (Nov 2015-Jan 2020) – now Project Manager at INGPHI, Switzerland.

Past Post-docs

  • Dr Emil Gallyamov (2022-2024) – now Civil Engineer at ALPIQ, Switzerland.
  • Dr Haseeb Zia (2015-2019) – now research engineer at Silvaco (UK).
  • Dr Thomas Blum (2015-2019) – now research scientist at the National Research Council, Montreal, Canada.
  • Dr Lorenzo Benedetti (2017-2018) now head of R&D at EuroTube (Zurich, CH).
  • Dr Dmitry Nikolskiy (2016-2019).

Past visiting students

  • Priyansh Meena (from Indian Institute of Technology) – summer 2026.
  • Tom Begel (from ENSG Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, Nancy France) – summer 2025.
  • Sumanta Roy (from IIT Madras) – summer 2023.
  • Ratul Das (National Institute of Science Education and Research, India) – summer 2023.
  • Julie Hatcherian (ENSG France) – summer 2023.
  • Xiaohua Wang (Tongi University) – 2022.
  • Nathan Carbonneau – exchange student from ENS Paris-Saclay – summer 2021.
  • Lucas Pereira – Exchange Master Student from Ecole Polytechnique (France) – Summer 2020.
  • Karan Mittal – Exchange Student from IIT Delhi – summer 2019.
  • Matthieu Beaudet – Exchange Master Student from Ecole Polytechnique (France) – Summer 2018 – now at Oliver Wyman.
  • Valeriia Petrenko – Exchange Master Student from Ecole Polytechnique (France) – Summer 2018.
  • Weihan Zhang – Exchange Master Student from Ecole Polytechnique (France) – Summer 2017 – then graduate student at UT Austin.