Staff

Director

Prof. dr. ir. M. Roustaei 

Research interests:

Academic staff

Prof. ir. B. Stuyts (Academic bibliography)

Research interests:

  • offshore foundations and geotechnics
  • cables and pipelines
  • data-driven design methods

Em. prof. dr. ir. W. Van Impe (Academic bibliography)

Research interests:

  • foundation engineering
  • in-situ and laboratory soil characterization
  • ground improvement

 

Em. prof. dr. ir. A. Bezuijen (Academic bibliography)

Research interests:

  • ground improvement
  • foundation engineering
  • in-situ and laboratory soil characterization

Prof. dr. ir. W. Haegeman (Academic bibliography)

Research interests:

  • behaviour of soils at small-strain levels
  • geophysical methods
  • static and dynamic properties of geomaterials

 

Prof. dr. ir. H. Peiffer (Academic bibliography)

Research interests:

  • flow through (un)saturated porous media and grondwater flow
  • centrifuge modelling for (un)saturated soils (patent owner)
  • in situ soil testing
  • foundation engineering

 

Prof. dr. ir. G. Di Emidio (Academic bibliography)

Research interests:

  • environmental geotechnics
  • reuse of industrial by-products
  • barrier systems
  • development of new materials (HYPER clay inventor)

 

Administrative and technical staff

H. De Cooman

Secretary

J. Van der Perre 

Technician

F. Van Boxstael

Technician

PHD Students

Muhammad Khizar Khan (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Soil improvement with recycled materials.

Chenhui Liu (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Tunnel-pile interaction

Chenghao Zhang (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Slurry infiltration characteristics under various conditions.

Zhongtian Chen (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Soil conditioning in TBM excavation

Wenjing Tian (Academic bibliography)

Study of the influence of groundwater in the unsaturated zone on the stability of embankments, by developing a model for two-phase flow (air/water)

Ahsan Rehman Khan (Academic bibliography)

Geosynthetics in Reinforced fill structure

Post-Doc researcher

Carlos Sastre Jurado (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Integrated "digital twin" model of the offshore wind turbine