LMS involved in the Marie-Curie project TERRE with 2 new PhD students
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Laboratory of Soil Mechanics is pleased to welcome Gianluca Speranza (right on the image) and Jacopo Zannin (left).
LMS announces his participation in the Marie Curie Network, project TERRE (Training Engineers and Researchers to Rethink geotechnical Engineering for a low carbon future).
TERRE aims to develop novel geo-technologies to address the competitiveness challenge of the European construction industry in a low carbon agenda. It will be delivered through an inter-sectoral and intra-European coordinated PhD program focused on carbon-efficient design of geotechnical infrastructure.
EPFL is participating in this project with two “Industrial-oriented” PhDs in collaboration with the industrial partner Nobatek.
Two doctoral students are involved:
· Gianluca Speranza graduated from University of Salerno, Department of Civil Engineering in 2015. He wrote his Master thesis during an Erasmus Traineeship Project in The Netherlands where he was involved in subsoil modelling and settlements forecasting of infrastructure built on soft soils via satellite data.
Gianluca's research activities will include the development of methods for carbon footprint assessment in geotechnical construction taking into account resource consumption and environmental effects.
· Jacopo Zannin graduated from University of Trento, DICAM, in 2016 with a Master thesis entitled “Site performance on a layered liquefiable ground” developed in the framework of the bilateral agreements between University of Trento and University of Colorado Boulder.
Jacopo’s research will focus on the improvement of the technology related to energy geostructures.