Distinguished lectures

European distinguished lecture (selected by TC106)

• Prof. Yu-Jun Cui (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France)
  Unsaturated railway track-bed materials

Keynote lectures

• Prof. Majid Hassanizadeh (U. Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  Advances in experimental and computational studies of flow in unsaturated porous media
• Prof. Weimin Ye (Tongji U., Shanghaï, China)
  Investigation on chemical effects on GMZ bentonite used as buffer material

Plenary lectures

• Dr. Gilles Armand (Andra, Bure, France)
• Inputs from in situ experiments to the understanding of unsaturated behaviour of the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone
• Prof. Charles Augarde (Durham U., UK) 
  Challenges in treating earthen construction materials as unsaturated soils
• Prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera (Northwestern U. USA) 
  Pore pressure instabilities in soils: modeling the role of saturation conditions
• Prof. Nasser Khalili (U. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
  Effective stress and Energetics of Unsaturated Soils
• Prof. Alberto Ledesma (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
  Cracking in desiccating soils
• Prof. Tom Schanz (Ruhr Universiteit Bochum, Germany)
  Transient boundary conditions in the frame of THM-processes in nuclear waste repositories

Invited Lectures

• Prof. Francesca Casini (U. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy)
  Infiltration-induced Slope Instability: a multi scale approach
• Prof. Frédéric Collin (U. Liège, Belgium)
  Modelling an in-situ ventilation test in the ANDRA Underground Research Facilities
• Prof. Philippe Cosenza (U. Poitiers, France) 
  Geophysical determination of soil water content
• Dr. Paul Hughes (Durham U., UK) 
  Challenges in monitoring and managing engineered slope stability in a changing climate
• Prof. Cristina Jommi (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
  Fabric and clay activity in soil water retention behaviour
• Dr. Nadia Mokni (IRSN, France) 
  SEALEX In-Situ Experiments-Performance Tests of Repository Seals: Experimental observations and modelling
• Prof. Giacomo Russo (U. di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italia) 
  Chemo-physical evolution and microstructure features of lime treated soils
• Prof. Alessandro Tarantino (U. Strathclyde, UK)
  Advances in the monitoring of geo-structure subjected to climate loading
• Dr. Victor Vilarrasa (EPFL, Switzerland)
  Two-phase flow effects on the CO2 injection pressure evolution and implication for the caprock geomechanical stability