Laurent Vulliet
Expertise
- Comportement des géomatériaux: modélisation constitutive, sols non saturés, couplages thermo-hydro-mécaniques, fluage, écoulements multiphasiques dans les milieux poreux déformables, modélisation numérique
- Risk Management: glissements de terrains, laves torrentielles, vulnérabilité, approches probabilistes, gestion intégrale des risques.
2016: Board Member Certificate, Swiss Board School, Switzerland
2008: AMP (Advanced Management Program), INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
1986: PhD (Dr sc. tech.), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
1980: Ms, Civil Engineering (Dipl. Bauing. ETH), ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
PRESENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2021 - Present: President of the Board, De Cérenville Géotechnique SA, Ecublens
2018 - Present: Owner, Prof. Vulliet Consulting, Lausanne.
2003 - Present: Foundation Council Member, Les Bois Chamblard Foundation, Lausanne.
1994 - Present: Honorary Professor, EPFL. Past Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory (1994-2008). Past Dean ENAC (2001-2008). Honorary Professor since February 2023.
PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2018 - 2024: President, Société du Quartier Nord de l'EPFL
2016 - 2023: Member of the Board of Directors, Implenia, Opfikon, Switzerland
2009-2013: Vice-President, Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA).
2008 - 2015: CEO, BG Consulting Engineers, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2006 - 2015: Member of the Board of Directors, BG Consulting Engineers, Lausanne
2003-2008: Member, Stiftungsrat der Präventionsstiftung der KGV (a Swiss foundation for the financing of applied research in the domain of natural risks from Cantonal Building Insurances).
2001 - 2008 Dean, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), EPFL
1999 - 2001 Head, Civil Engineering Department, EPFL
1998 – 2001: Member of the Board of Directors, Stump Bohr AG, Nänikon.
1995 - 2024: Member and then President (since 2020), Foundation Council of the Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR), Lausanne
1989 - 1993 Senior Engineer, De Cérenville Géotechnique SA, Ecublens, Switzerland
1987 - 1989 Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
1986 Invited Researcher, Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées (LCPC), Paris, France
1981 - 1986 Research assistant, and PhD student, Soil Mechanics Laboratory (LMS), EPFL. Thesis on the modeling of natural creeping slopes. Co-advisors Prof. E. Recordon (EPFL) and Prof. K. Hutter (TU Darmstadt)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- International Association for Computer Meth. and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG)
- International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
- International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
- Swiss Society for Soil and Rock Mechanics (SSMSR)
- Swiss Society for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (SGEB)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
- Kantonale Expertengruppe Sicherheit (KES). Expertise in the field of underground construction/rock mechanics for the Cantonal Expert Group on Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal (cantons of Zurich, Aargau, and Schaffhausen). (KES). (2020 - Present )- Federal Geological Commission (FGC), a permanent extra-parliamentary commission which advises the Federal Council on applied geology (appointed by the Federal Council). (2020 - Present)- Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). A network of Switzerland's most eminent names in the various engineering fields. (2014 - Present)
- Member, Federal Geological Commission (FGC), a permanent extra-parliamentary commission which advises the Federal Council on applied geology (appointed by the Federal Council). (2020 - present) - Swiss National Science Foundation (NSF): member of the Foundation Council and of the Electoral Commission (1996-2003)
- Extra-Parliamentary National Commission on Natural Disasters (PLANAT): member of the Commission 1997-2007 (member of the Executive Board from 1997 to 2000)
- Natural Hazards Competence Centre CENAT (ETH Domain): founder member and member of the Board of Directors (1995-2007)
- Alliance of European Research Laboratories (ALERT), member of the Board of Directors (1995-2009)
- Beratende Kommission Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL): member (2000-2004)
- Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF, Monte Verità): member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (1997-2007)
- EPFL Press and Information Commission (CPI). Member 1994-94, President 1995-2000
EDITORIAL BOARDS
- Adjunct Editor-in-Chief, Revue française de génie civil (Hermès); founder member (1996-2009). Now "European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering"
- Editorial Advisory Board, Int. J. Num. Analyt. Meth. in Geomech., John Wiley (1997-2009).
- Editorial Board, Int. J. of Geomechanics (2000-2009).
- Editorial Board, Computer & Geotechnics, Elsevier (2001-2009).
- Editorial Board, Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica (1997-2009).
Prix et distinctions
French Academy of Sciences
2018
Publications représentatives
Mécanique des sols et des roches
L. Vulliet, L. Laloui, J. Zhao
Published in Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, 2016, 604 p. in
Environmental Geomechanics
Vulliet L., Laloui L., Schrefler B. (Eds)
Published in PPUR , 421 p., 2002 in
Natural slopes in slow movement. A chapter of the book Modeling in Geomechanics, Zaman, Booker & Gioda Editors
Vulliet L.
Published in J. Wiley & Sons, 706 p., 2000 in
Miscible and immiscible multiphase flow in deformable porous media.
Klubertanz G., Bouchelaghem F., Laloui L., Vulliet L.
Published in Mathematical and Computer Modelling Journal., vol. 37, pp. 571-582, 2003 in
Instabilit� des massifs de sol. Un chapitre du livre "G�om�canique environnementale risques naturels et patrimoine" . Sous la direction de B. Schrefler, P. Delage
Vulliet L.
Published in Ed. Hermes Science, 334 p., 2001 in
Mechanics of multiphase porous media-application to unsaturated soils . A chapter of the book "Continuum mechanics and applications in geophysics and environment.". Editors B. Straughan et al.,
Vulliet L., Laloui L.
Published in Ed. Springer, , Berlin, 393 p., 2001 in
Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt. A chapter of the book "Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Approaches in Unsaturated Soils". Tarautino & Maucuso. Ed.
Geiser F., Laloui L., Vulliet L.
Published in Balkema, Rotterdam, 199p., 2000 in
Constitutive modeling and analysis of creeping slopes
Desai C.S., Samtani N., Vulliet L.
Published in J. of Geotech. Eng., ASCE, Vol. 121, No 1, pp. 43-56, 1995 in
A continuum model for natural slopes in slow movement.
Vulliet L., Hutter K.
Published in Geotechnique, Vol.38, No.2, pp. 199-217, 1988 in
Instabilit� des massifs de sol. Un chapitre du livre "G�om�canique environnementale risques naturels et patrimoine" . Sous la direction de B. Schrefler, P. Dalage.
Vulliet L.
Published in Ed. Hermes Science, 334 p., 2001 in
Mechanics of multiphase porous media-application to unsaturated soils . A chapter of the book "Continuum mechanics and applications in geophysics and environment.". Editors B. Straughan et al.
Vulliet L., Laloui L.
Published in Ed. Springer, Berlin, 393 p., 2001 in
Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt. A chapter of the book "Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Approaches in Unsaturated Soils". Tarautino & Maucuso, Editors
Geiser F., Laloui L., Vulliet L.
Published in Balkema, Rotterdam, 199p., 2000 in
Enseignement et PhD
A dirigé les thèses EPFL de
Françoise Geiser, Georg Klubertanz, Martin Kern, Frédéric Mayoraz, Fatiha Bouchelaghem, Eric Bardou, Ahmad Rifai, Michel Dysli, Azad Koliji, Rafal Filip Obrzud, Emilie Rascol