Staff

Director

Prof. dr. ir. M. Roustaei (Academic bibliography)

E-mail : Mahya.Roustaei@UGent.be

Research interests:

• Cold region engineering
• Non-destructive soil characterization methods (e.g., Computed Tomography)
• Static and dynamic behavior of pure and reinforced soil .

Academic staff

Prof. dr. 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: Water retention curves of polymer-modified clay (HYPER clay) and waste polymer reuse.

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)

Research topic: Slope stability caused by rainfall infiltration

Ahsan Rehman Khan (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Geosynthetics in Reinforced fill structure

Waqas Akhtar (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Impact of Soil Water Retention Curve of Unsaturated Soils on the Corrosion of Metal/Alloys

Yue Sun (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Statistical Variability Analysis of Cyclic DSS Tests under Various Loading Conditions

Anis Kheffache (Academic bibliography)

Research topic: Investigation of laterally loaded monopiles using 3D -FE modeling and monitoring data

Post-Doc researcher

Carlos Sastre Jurado (Academic bibliography)

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