Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Laurens Pipoz studied physics at EPFL, where he specialized in plasma physics. During his master, he investigated bacterial responses to plasma-activated water using bacterial nanomotion-based techniques. He will spend six …
Welcome Intern Laurens Pipoz Read MoreZenan HuoDirector: Prof. Dr. Michel Jaboyedoff,Co-director : Prof. Dr. Yury PodladchikovJury: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Crosta, Prof. Dr. Johan Gaume, Dr. Ivan Utkin Standing at the intersection of rapidly advancing computing …
Zenan Huo : “High-Resolution Material Point Method: Development and Application to Landslide Dynamics” Read MoreEugène Mettraux completed a master’s degree in physics at EPFL. His work involves data analysis and applied statistical methods. He spent six months of his civil service in the RISK group under the supervision of Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff. During this time, he led an analysis of …
Welcome Eugène Mettraux (Civil Servant) Read MoreThe sixth Virtual Geoscience Conference came back to the University of Lausanne from the 9th to 12th of September 2025. A full day of short courses on the 9th of …
Virtual Geoscience Conference (VGC) 2025 Read MoreMy name is Anuradha Karunakalage, and I am currently pursuing my doctoral studies as a cotutelle Ph.D. student jointly enrolled at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and the University of Lausanne …
Welcome PhD Student Anuradha Karunakalage Read MoreWeibo Rao is a PhD student from China university of Geosciences (Wuhan), jointly trained by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Kiel). His research focuses on developing key technologies for automated …
Welcome Visiting PhD Student Weibo Rao Read MoreConference site : https://wp.unil.ch/rsg-2025/ 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 and gravity 2025 (RSG-2025): Forecasting and Modelling Large Rock Slope Failures in a Changing Mountain Environment Read MoreXiong 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 …
Welcome Visiting PhD Student Xiong Tang Read MoreRisk 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 …
Conference – Recent disasters in the Alps: What happened, what is being done, and what can be done? Read MoreKanglei 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 …
Welcome Visiting PhD Student Kanglei Song Read MoreHrvoje 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 …
Welcome Visiting PhD Student Hrvoje Lukačić Read MoreWith 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 …
Field work for Ollon landslide (2023) Read More