2024

• Honorary lecture, “A New Era for Geotechnical Engineering Practice”,  XXIX Károly Széchy Memorial Lecture 2024, Budapest, Hungary, February 2024
• Keynote lecture “Unlocking Renewable Energy in the Urban Subsurface,” 7th International Conference Series on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures, Hochi Minh City, Vietnam.

2023

• Keynote lecture, “Energy geotechnology: a new era for geotechnical engineering practice”, 17th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2023, Astana, Kazakhstan, August, 2023
• Distinguished lecture: “Smart exploitation of the renewable energy situated under our cities”, Hong Kong University, July 2023.
• “Carbon Dioxide Injection into Deep Aquifers: A Geomechanical Perspective”, 9th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnic (9ICEG), Greece, June 2023
• European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering (17DECG), “Exploiting the renewable energy resources of our cities’ underground” Bucharest, Romania, June 2023
• International Conference on Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (ICASGE’23), “Smart exploitation of the renewable energy situated under our cities” Hurghada, March 2023

2022

• The Big 5, International Building and Construction Show, “Innovation for a Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering Industry”, Dubai, December 2022.
• Distinguished Lecture, Northwestern Sustainability Summit on “Earth-Human Interactions: Sustainability and Development”, Chicago, Octobber 2022.
• 16^th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics “Tailor-made soil properties by bio-geochemical means”, Turin, August 2022.
• Keynote lecture, XXVII Italian National Congress on “Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Development, “Energy from Geotechnical Constructions: Analysis and Design”, Reggio Calabria, February 2022.
• Vienna – Terzaghi Lecture, Austrian Geotechnical Conference, “Tailor-made soil properties by bio-geochemical means”, Vienna, April 19, 2022
• Keynote lecture, 2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics, “Field Monitoring and Simulations of Nuclear Waste Barrier Systems”, San Diego, April 10-13, 2022

2021

• Keynote lecture, GE@2M (Grand Est, Mécanique et Matériaux), online, December 13-14, 2021 

2020

• Keynote lecture, 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Lisboa, Portugal, 19 to 21 October 2020.
• Keynote lecture, University of Minnesota 68th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, “Energy Geotechnology: A New Era for Geotechnical Engineering Society”, Minneapolis, February 25-28, 2020.
• Distinguished Lecture, Northwestern Sustainability Summit on “Earth-Human Interactions: Sustainability and Development”, April 8th 2020.