Former partners of the risk group are: Canton de Vaud, EPFL, SDC, CREALP, ERRA
Completed projects & PhD Theses
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2020
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2018
- Jérémie Voumard: “Natural hazards affecting the Swiss transportation networks: from their characterization to their low cost survey”
Jérémie Voumard Director: Prof. Dr. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Andrea Pedrazzini, Dr. Nicolas Pollet, Prof. Dr. Suren Erkmann Geological and hydro-geological natural hazards, as landslides and floods, are a threat to many transport networks built in mountainous areas. These risks, that are ... - Amenan Agnès Kouame: Apport de la modélisation hydrogéologique dans l’étude des risques de contamination de la nappe d’Abidjan par les hydrocarbures: Cas du benzène dans le District D’Abidjan
Amenan Agnès Kouame Directors: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff and Prof. Albert Goula Bi Tié Jury: Prof. François Zwahlen, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Jean Kouame Kan, Prof. Erkman Suren This study on the aquifer of the Continental Terminal is carried out in the Abidjan ...
2017
- Roya Olyazadeh: Natural hazards and open source development: adoption and application of mobile and Web-GIS technologies in risk management
Roya Olyazadeh Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Christian Kaiser, Dr. Anne Puissant, Prof. Suren Erkman Impacts of natural disasters have increased worldwide in the past decades. Risk assessments and analysis have been effectively pursued by research institutions, national and ... - Pierrick Nicolet: Quantitative risk analysis for natural hazards at local and regional scales
Pierrick Nicolet Director: Prof. Dr Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Dr Paolo Frattini, Dr Alexander Garcia Aristizabal, Dr Markus Imhof, Dr Farrokh Nadim, Prof. Dr Suren Erkman, Prof. Dr Jean-Luc Epard Natural hazards can have damaging consequences for human activities, causing death or economic ...
2016
- Céline Longchamp: The propagation of unconstrained dry granular flows: from laboratory to numerical modelisation
Céline Longchamp Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Giovanni Crosta, Prof. Yury Podladchikov, Dr. Irene Manzella, Prof. Suren Erkman As rock avalanches are rare catastrophic events in which granular masses of rock debris flow at high speeds, commonly with unusually long runout ... - Zar Chi Aye: A collaborative web-GIS based decision support platform for risk management of natural hazards
Zar Chi Aye Directors: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff and Dr. Marc-Henri Derron Jury: Prof. François Golay, Pr. Paola Reichenbach, Dr. Ivana Ivánová, Vice-Dean Suren Erkman Photo Credit: Civil Protection, FVG region (Italy) One of the main problems in risk management is the lack of good communication ... - Raja Mastouri: Application of offshore 3D seismic combined with onshore terrestrial laser-scanning and photogrammetry to analyse faults and fractures in Eocene carbonate reservoirs and to investigate basin tectonics in the Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia)
Raja Mastouri Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Samir Bouaziz, Prof. François Marillier, Dr. Robin Marchant, Vice-Dean Suren Erkman The detailed knowledge of the tectonic processes affecting the Gulf of Gabes, Eastern Tunisia domain, is essential in attempting to fully understand the controls of ... - Clément Michoud: From Regional Landslide Detection to Site-Specific Slope Deformation Monitoring and Modelling Based on Active Remote Sensors
Clément Michoud Directors: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff and Dr. Marc-Henri Derron Jury: Dr. François J. Baillifard, Prof. Lars H. Blikra, Prof. Jacques Locat, Dean François Bussy Landslide processes can have direct and indirect consequences affecting human lives and activities. In order to improve landslide ... - Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC): Nepal-Reducing risk from landslides and flash floods
Large and small hazard events are already the main cause of mortality – second only to epidemics – for mountain populations in Nepal and a major impediment to rural development. Due to the dispersed nature of mountain hazards, especially landslides ...
2015
- Battista Matasci: Rockfall susceptibility assessment and remote geological mapping with LiDAR point clouds
Battista Matasci Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Greg M. Stock, Dr. Brian Collins, Prof. Giovanni B. Crosta, Dean François Bussy Characterizing the geological features and structures in three dimensions over inaccessible rock cliffs is needed to assess natural hazards ...
2014
- CHANGES – Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks as Analyzed by a New Generation of European Scientists
The CHANGES network was a Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the European Community’s 7th Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under Grant Agreement No. 263953. The overall strategy of the network was to bring together a group of researchers with diverse ... - Characterizing and analyzing 3D temporal slope evolutionThis was a project carried out at the Group Risk of the University of Lausanne, in close collaboration with experts from the University of Barcelona, the Geological Survey of Norway, the University of Alicante and the UPC. Please find below ...
- Sustainable land management in mountain regions of Bolivia and Nepal in the context of outmigration, climate change and disaster risk reductionThis project was carried out at the University of Lausanne, in collaboration with: University of Bern-Centre for Development and environment; University of Neuchatel-Institute of Geography; International Union for Conservation of Nature; South Asia Regional Coordination Office-National Centre of Competence in ...
2013
- Alexandre Loye: Budgeting rockfall and modeling sediment delivery in torrent systems
Alexandre Loye Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Klaus Holliger, Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Frédéric Liébault, Dr. Francesco Brardinoni, Prof. Oldrich Hungr This thesis is a compilation of projects to study sediment processes recharging debris flow channels. These works, conducted during my stay ... - Marc Choffet: Cost of Natural Hazards to Building and Influence of Risk Factors in the Context of Building Insurance
Marc Choffet Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Prof. Eric Verrecchia, Prof. Franco Romerio, Prof. Jean Ruegg, Dr. Markus Imhof In Switzerland, the annual cost of damage by natural elements has been increasing for several years despite the introduction of protective ... - Slope instabilities mapping using GIS, Differential SAR Interferometry methodologies and field investigations along the National Road N7, Mendoza Province, ArgentinaThis project was carried out with the collaboration of the Group Risk from the University of Lausanne and the Argentinean Geological Survey (SEGEMAR). The main goals of this project are: Identification of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation and structures displacements by advanced ...
2012
- Pascal Peduzzi: Risk and Global Change: Developing scientific methods for advocacy and awareness raising.Abstract will be available soon.
- SafeLand – Living with landslide risk in Europe
SafeLand was a Large-scale integrating Collaborative research project funded by the The Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7) of the European Commission. The project team, composed of 27 institutions from 13 European countries, was coordinated by Norwegian ... - Andrea Pedrazzini: Characterization of gravitational rock slope deformations at different spatial scales based on field, remote sensing and numerical approaches.
Andrea Pedrazzini Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Torsten Venneman, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Federico Agliardi, Prof. Masahiro Chigira, Prof. Giovanni Crosta Rock slope instabilities such as rock slides, rock avalanche or deep-seated gravitational slope deformations are widespread in Alpine valleys. These phenomena represent ... - Statistical precipitation forecasting for the Minerve project
The upper Rhone catchment is sometimes subject to heavy precipitation that can eventually result in floods. The MINERVE project, to which this work belongs, aims at providing tools for flood forecasting and management. For this purpose, actions can be undertaken ... - Pascal Horton: Improvements and global optimization of the analogue method for statistical precipitations forecasting.Pascal Horton Directors: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Prof. Charles Obled Jury: Prof. Francois Bussy, Dr. Dominique Berod, Dr. Daniel Cattani, Dr. Vincent Fortin The upper Rhone catchment is sometimes subject to heavy precipitation that can eventually result in floods. The MINERVE project, ...
2011
- Karen Sudmeier-Rieux: On risk, resilience and vulnerability of mountain communities in Central-Eastern Nepal
Karen Sudmeier-Rieux Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Dr. Ronald Jaubert, Dr. JC Gaillard, Dr. Markus Zimmermann, Dr. Knut Falk In Nepal, landslides are one of the major natural hazards after epidemics, killing over 100 persons per year. However, this figure is an underreported reflection of the actual ... - Flow-R (debris-flows assessment at a regional scale)
Flow-R is a distributed empirical model for regional susceptibility assessments of debris flows, developed at the University of Lausanne. It was successfully applied to different case studies in various countries. The model was also found relevant to assess other natural hazards ...
2010
- Advanced Susceptibility Mapping for Natural Hazards in the Swiss Alpine Valley of Bagnes
Alpine municipalities are exposed to numerous natural hazards, such as snow avalanches, rockfalls, landslides and debris flows. The Bagnes and Vollèges municipalities in Valais (Switzerland) lie between 600 m and 4200 m m.s.l. with an area of 300 km2. The anthropization is ...
2009
- Thierry Oppikofer: Detection, analysis and monitoring of slope movements by high-resolution digital elevation models.
Thierry Oppikofer Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Jean-Luc Epard, Prof. Torsten Vennemann, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Prof. Giovanni Crosta, Prof. Doug Stead, Dr. Lars Harald Blikra Slope movements, such as rockfalls, rockslides, shallow landslides or debris flows, are frequent in many mountainous areas. These natural hazards endanger the ...