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Curriculum Vitae
Professor Farimah MASROURI
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LEMTA- CNRS – ENSG – Université de Lorraine
B.P. 40, rue du Doyen Marcel Roubault
54501 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy
03 83 59 63 04 – 06 70 22 41 00
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EDUCATIONAL RECORD
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR). Civil and Mining Engineering, Institut National Polytechnique de
Lorraine, Nancy, France, July 1996
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon, France, February 1986
M.S. Civil Engineering, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France, June 1982
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, Iran. June 1980
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1989 - 1999, Associate Professor (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy – Institut National
Polytechnique de Lorraine)
1999 – Present, Professor in Geotechnical Engineering (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy –
Université de Lorraine)
1999- Present, Head of the Soil Mechanics Research Team.
2005- 2010, Academic responsible of Civil Engineering Master of Nancy-Université.
2007- 2012, Director of LAEGO a Research Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geoenvironmental Engineering
2012-Present, Head of LEMTA research group: Porous media: multi-scale and multi-physical behaviour and flows.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
Experimental and Theoretical Studies in the Following Areas:
(1) Mechanical, Hydraulic, Thermal and Chemical behavior of Saturated and Unsaturated Soils in Multi-Scales, (2)
Design of Geotechnical structures.
Teaching:
Advanced Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, Modelling, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Natural Risk
Assessment, Critical State, Yielding and Plasticity of soils.
Research:
Coupling Behavior (Hydraulic – Mechanical - Thermal & Chemical), and Physical & Numerical Modeling of Clayey
Soils (Saturated, Unsaturated, Swelling or Rigid, Natural or Remolded – Treated) in Multi-Scales: Lab (micromacroscopique ) and in-situ
Aging and Time effects
Applications: Geotechnical, Geothermal and Energy Structures, Construction Safety and Geo-environmental
Engineering
SUPERVISION (PhD – Master thesis)
70 Master thesis and 29 PhD thesis supervised and co-supervised from 1990 to 2016.
PUBLICATIONS
60 Peer reviewed journal papers; 115 Conference publications; 1 Book chapter; 40 Research reports.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND COUNCILS
Member of the Scientific Council of Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (1991-96)
Member of Comité Français de Mécanique des Sols et des Fondations (1990-present), and member of the Technical
Committee (2007-present)
Member of Association Universitaire du Génie Civil AUGC (1990-present), Vice-Chairman (2001-2004)
Chairmain of the Scientific Council of AUGC (2008-present)
Member of the Commission of Specialists of the Mechanics, Civil Engineering (60th section) of Institut National
Polytechnique de Lorraine (1992-2008)
Member of Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches (1995-2013)
Member of Comité Français de Géologie de l’Ingénieur (1995-present)
Member of Comité Français de Génie Civil (2004-present)
Member of the International Technical Committees: TC106 Unsaturated soils, TC306 Geo-Engineering Education
and TC308 Energy Geotechnics of ISSMGE
Member of the Council of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie ENSG (2000-present)
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-chief of Revue Française de Géotechnique.
Member of editorial board of European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering.
REVIEW ACTIVITIES
Papers: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering; Applied Clay Science; Comptes Rendus Geoscience; European
Journal of Soil Science; Geotechnical Testing Journal; Canadian Geotechnical Journal; Revue Française de
Géotechnique. Engineering Geology.
Scientific Proposals: European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST; French National Research
Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR).
AWARDS
Chevalier des Palmes Académiques 2011.
Marteau d’honneur Association des Géoliens - 2016