Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Landslides in deep weathered soils are a major concern for roads and other infrastructures in Nepal. The Risk group has developed a multi-disciplinary research program in the mid-hill areas (West …
Bioengineering for landslide mitigation in Nepal Read MoreOn 7 to 11 April 2014 the group risk of ISTE, University of Lausanne, organized the CHANGES meeting at Les Diablerets. CHANGES is an ITN European project entitled: “Changing Hydro-meteorological …
CHANGES meeting, at Les Diablerets – 7 to 11 April 2014 Read More
The Risk group has been working for a couple of years with the universities of Caen (S. Costa, P. Letortu and O. Maquaire) and Bretagne Occidentale (C. Delacourt) on coastal …
Workshop « lidar et milieux naturels – Caen 10 April 2014 » Read MoreOn March 20 2014, Martina Böhme defended her PhD in Trondheim at NTNU entitled “Spatial and temporal variability of rock slope instabilities and failures within western Norway” she has been …
Martina Böhme PhD defense Read MoreOn the 10th of February 2014, Catherine Cloutier held her PhD defense at ULAVAL Québec. During her PhD, she spent 3 months at university of Lausanne in the risk group in 2011. …
PhD defense of Catherine Cloutier ULAVAL Québec Read More0n 14th January 2014, our colleague Dr. Jean-Philippe Malet defended his HDR (habilitation à diriger des recherches) at the University of Strasbourg. It was an honor for M. Jaboyedoff to …
Congratulation to Dr. Jean-Philippe Malet Read MoreOn December 18th December 2013, M.Jaboyedoff participated to the PhD committee of André Stumpf at the University of Strasbourg. The title of the PhD (under the supervision of J.-P. Malet) …
Member of the PhD committee of André Stumpf at University of Strasbourg under the supervision of J.-P. Malet Read MoreThe Institute of Earth Sciences is monitoring erosion dynamics in a study site in Draix (SE France), in cooperation with several other research groups, as part of Benjamin Rudaz’ PhD …
Erosion monitoring – Project Roubinette is operational Read MoreTwo members of our group (Dr. Ivanna Penna and Dr. Antonio Abellán) have recently conducted several weeks field work research in the Andes and Pampeanas range (Argentina), in collaboration with …
Field work in the Andes and Pampeanas Range Read MoreAmenan Agnès Kouame (PhD student at UNIL) is working on the vulnerability to pollution of the aquifer of Abidjan. Abidjan is a 7 million inhabitants megacity, with several huge rubbish …
Abidjan’s aquifer vulnerability Read More