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Rock slope and gravity 2025 (RSG-2025): Forecasting and Modelling Large Rock Slope Failures in a Changing Mountain Environment

July 11, 2025July 24, 2025

Preregistration: https://events.unil.ch/register/495 26-28 November 2025 – University of Lausanne Recent catastrophic rock, rock-ice or rock-debris avalanches highlight the urgent need to improve detection, monitoring, and modeling of large-scale rock slope …

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Welcome Visiting PhD Student Xiong Tang

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

Xiong Tang is a PhD student from Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, whose research focuses on granular flow, landslide dynamics and numerical modelling with the …

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Hélder Peixoto : Web GIS Application for Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Based on Incomplete Data

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

Natural hazards have a significant impact on global populations causing fatalities and damage to agriculture, buildings, and infrastructure. With climate change, such hazards are expected to become more frequent and …

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Field Visits for Understanding Accelerated Surface Movements in Joshimath, Chamoli, Uttarakhand India

January 10, 2025January 11, 2025

Joshimath, a hill town in India’s Garhwal Himalayas, is densely populated despite its fragile terrain and proximity to the active Himalayan thrust faults. The town rests on old extensive landslide …

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Conference – Recent disasters in the Alps: What happened, what is being done, and what can be done?

October 28, 2024November 1, 2024

Risk Cycle Conference December 9th, 2024 (13h) Location: University of Lausanne Room Amphimax – 41409.12.2024 from 13:00 to 18:30.Free admission, open to all (places limited to 100 on-site) Registration required …

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International Symposium for Landslide (ISL 2024)

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024

From July 8 to 12, the ISL took place in Chambéry (Fr), a conference in which several members of the laboratory participated. I) Posters II) Presentations

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Field Visits in the frame of the CRUCIAL project: “The evolution of Avalanche Risk Management as a local risk management culture, with the advancement of Science and Technology over time in Switzerland”

June 18, 2024February 4, 2025

The field work carried by Deepak KC, a PhD Student, at the Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE), of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) – who is also working with UNDP …

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EGU 2024

April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

The Risk Group was once again present for EGU 2024, held from April 15th to April 19th in Vienna, Austria. The list of given presentations is as follows:

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Welcome Visiting PhD Student Kanglei Song

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Kanglei Song is a PhD student from Chongqing University, China, whose research focuses on monitoring and early warning of slow-moving landslides in the Three Gorges reservoir area of China. He …

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Welcome Visiting PhD Student Hrvoje Lukačić

March 4, 2024March 4, 2024

Hrvoje Lukačić is a PhD student from the Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He will stay at the Risk Group of UNIL as a …

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Field work for Ollon landslide (2023)

December 14, 2023

With the recent increase in rainfall, a new shallow landslide occurred in Ollon on December 1, 2023. As per the request from CSD, the Risk analysis group (Ph.D. students: Antonin …

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XIV IAEG Congress 2023

December 4, 2023December 6, 2023

Our team participated in the 14th IAEG Congress in Chengdu. The conference centered on discussions about global climate change, geological disaster assessment and prevention, geotechnical characteristics of rock and soil …