Current projects

Current PhD Thesis

• Policy and Practice Interface on Climate Risk Reduction and Management for Building Climate Resilient Communities
  Deepak KC After graduating from the University of Tokyo, JAPAN , I began my professional career with United Nations Development Programme. I worked almost 16 years on designing and implementation projects/ programme on Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction (Climate Risk Management) that includes multi-hazards risks assessment & particularly hydro-meteorological ...
• Lidia Loiotine : Geomechanical characterization of rock masses for stability analysis
  Lidia Loiotine Starting date : 2018 in Italy, moved to Lausanne in 2020 My first name is Lidia and I come from Bari (southern Italy).  I obtained my bachelor’s and master’s degree in Geological Sciences at University of Bari. In 2018 I started a PhD programme in Geosciences in the form ...
• Li Fei: Effect of weathering on rock wall retreat and landslide stability
  Li Fei My name is Li Fei. I obtained my bachelor’s and master’s degree in Geological Engineering in China. I started my Ph.D. project under the guidance of Pro. Michel Jaboyedoff at Risk Group of the University of Lausanne from October 2018.As weathering including physical and chemical weathering has been widely ...
• Emmanuel Nduwayezu: Rainfall variability modelling and mapping and global risk evaluation in Rwanda.
  Emmanuel Nduwayezu Directors: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Prof. Mikhail Kanevski. Research project summary description The high population densities of Rwanda can be explained by climatic conditions, especially rainfall conditions. Precipitations have been generally quite good, and have contributed to define an agricultural calendar with two harvest seasons in a civil year. With the exacerbation of extreme ...
• Dario Carrea : Understanding landslide deformation from LiDAR data
  Dario Carrea Co-supervisors : Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Dr. Antonio Abellán, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron Real landslides are complex bodies affected by spatio-temporal changes: while some areas are affected by progressive deformation, others areas are typically affected by sudden changes as rockfalls. Use of LiDAR techniques to monitor these complex phenomena is now well ...
• Chunwei Sun : Processes under water-rock chemical interaction
  Chunwei Sun will stay for 2 years in the Risk Group at UNIL. Chunwei is a joint-PhD student of the Department of Geological Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China. His research involves geochemical weathering in rock mass deterioration and the oxidation-acid erosion mechanism of black shale especially. During ...
• Charlotte Wolff : Risk analyses of Cima del Simano mountain, Ticino, Switzerland
  Charlotte Wolff After working for one year with a company developping tools for UAV photogrammetry in Lausanne as QA software engineer, I decided to tackle a new challenge by starting a PhD with the RISK group analyses of ISTE, Unil Lausanne. With a background in both geology and geomatic (Sfm, ...
• Antoine Guérin: Novel approach for quantifying rockfall and rock mass failure: point cloud analysis of pluri-decennial rockfall activity and characterization of thermally induced rock deformation
  Antoine Guérin led a very innovative research financed by the SNSF Grants#: 200021_127132, 200020_146426, and 200020_159221, dedicated to rockfall hazard based on rockfall sources area statistics and thermal imaging. The importance of this research has been acknowledged in the Horizon SNF magazine. He will defend his PhD ...

Current Master Works

• Cristiano Gygax : Low-cost Arduino-based terrestrial lidar scanner
  Gygax Cristiano Starting date : September 2019 Supervisor : Marc-Henri Derron After a bachelor in Forest Sciences at HAFL Bern with specialisation in protective forests and a one year internship at the cantons of Fribourg and Grisons, I decided to undertake the master in Natural Hazards and Risk at UNIL, being fascinated by ...
• Amalia Gutiérrez: Geological, geometrical and statistical analysis of landslides and rockfalls listed in Ticino during the last 20 years
  Carlota Amalia Gutiérrez After finishing my bachelor’s and license degree in geology at the University of Costa Rica, I decided to move to Lausanne to continue my higher education by pursuing a master’s degree in geological risks. I integrated the RISK analysis group of the ISTE, at UNIL last September. ...