Keynote lectures

Laboratory of soil mechanics

Keynote talks

Prof. Laloui is invited to deliver keynote talks at the following coming international events:

Keynote Lecture, “Bio-cementation: Transforming Scientific Discoveries into Market Solutions,” XVIII European Conference On Soil Mechanics And Geotechnical Engineering, ECSMGE 24, Lisbon, Portugal.
Honorary lecture, “A New Era for Geotechnical Engineering Practice”, XXIX Károly Széchy Memorial Lecture 2024, Budapest, Hungary.
Keynote lecture “Unlocking Renewable Energy in the Urban Subsurface,” 7th International Conference Series on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures, Hochi Minh City, Vietnam.
Keynote lecture “Bio-cementation: Transforming Scientific Discoveries into Market Solutions,” 5th International Conference of Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering, Warsaw, Poland.
Keynote lecture “Exploitering the Renewable Energy Resources of our Cities’ Underground,” 11th International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, Macao, SAR.
Keynote lecture “Soil Reinforcement based on Bio-Geo-Chemical Processes,” 28th European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference EYGEC2024, Macedonia.

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

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.

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

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.