Imane Bekrine receives the Best Student Presentation Award at the ACI/RILEM ICCM2024 international conference

Imane Bekrine received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 12th ACI/RILEM International Conference held in Toulouse from 23 to 26 June 2024 Among the 60 presentations by PhD students over the three days of the conference, Imane stood out for her presentation entitled “Multiscale Mechanical Investigation of Ternary Binders…

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Georgios Tzortzopoulos, awarded the “Pierre Londe” thesis prize by the Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches (CFMR).

Georgios Tzortzopoulos prepared his thesis ‘Controlling earthQuakes (CoQuake) in the laboratory using pertinent fault stimulating techniques’ at GeM – Ecole Centrale de Nantes under the supervision of Ioannis Stefanou and as part of the ERC CoQuake project (www.coquake.eu). Based on mathematical developments, numerical analyses and experimental tests, Georgios’ thesis provides,…

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Siddhartha H. Ommi, awarded the 2nd “Ioannis Vardoulakis” thesis prize at the ALERT Geomaterials 2023 workshop.

The 2nd “Ioannis Vardoulakis” thesis prize was attributed to Siddhartha H. Ommi at the annual ALERT Geomaterials workshop held in Aussois from September 25 to 27, 2023. Siddhartha completed his thesis entitled ‘Study of hydro-mechanical instabilities in geomaterials’, defended on April 14, 2022, at GeM – École Centrale de Nantes,…

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