Actualités et Événements

Lyesse Laloui elected to prestigious Academia Europaea

Published:23.04.24 — Renowned geomechanical expert to join influential academic organization

A New Era for Geotechnical Engineering Practice.

Published:12.02.24 — Prof. Laloui delivers XXIX Károly Széchy Memorial Lecture.

BIGALPS consortium awarded EIC Transition Grant.

Published:14.12.23 — The Laloui Group to expand its bio-cementation technology into real-world situations with a European Innovation Council (EIC) grant.

Demonstrating geological CO2 storage on the EPFL campus

Published:06.11.23 — The Laloui Group is developing a first-of-its-kind geological CO2 storage simulator to ensure safe and reliable carbon capture and storage.

“The key skill I've learnt is perseverance”

Published:23.07.23 — Congratulations to LMS apprentice Natacha Romanens who has successfully completed her studies to become a physics laboratory assistant.

InSituStreTech Project on track with new grant

Published:05.04.23 — The Laloui Group’s new start-up project InSituStreTech continues progressing through its research and development phase with an Ignition Grant from EPFL’s Tech Launchpad technology incubator. The Ignition Grant is a recognition of the Project’s progress, allowing the start-up to begin validating the technology. 

The Laloui Group wins the Scott Sloan Best Paper Award

Published:14.03.23 — A paper written by the Laloui Group Director, Prof. Laloui, and two alumni, Dr. Alice Di Donna and Dr. Alessandro F. Rotta Loria, has received the Scott Sloan Best Paper Award 2021 from the journal Computers and Geotechnics.

2023 Intensive Course on Energy Geostructures: 5th edition

Published:05.07.22 — The annual intensive Course on Energy Geostructures: Analysis and Design for 2023 is now open for applications.

Une puce permet d'étudier la formation du biociment en temps réel

Published:05.12.22 — Des scientifiques de l'EPFL et de l'Université de Lausanne ont utilisé une puce initialement conçue pour les sciences de l'environnement afin d’étudier les propriétés de la formation du biociment. Ce dernier a le potentiel de remplacer les liants traditionnels du ciment dans certaines applications de génie civil.

LMS Master's student awarded the 2022 RIE Prize.

Published:18.11.22 — Annik Schaufelberger has received the 2022 RIE Prize for her Master’s thesis in Civil Engineering at EPFL on storing thermal energy in the ground using underground infrastructure.