SIAME Laboratory

UR 4581

CNRS Research Federation IPRA FR 2952 (French acronym for Multidisciplinary Institute of Applied Research in Petroleum Engineering)

Contacts

Laboratory

siame.contact @ univ-pau.fr

 

Director

Laurent PECASTAING

   laurent.pecastaing @ univ-pau.fr

 

Assistant director

Stéphane ABADIE

 stephane.abadie @ univ-pau.fr

Domenico GallipoliProfessor

  • domenico.gallipoli @ univ-pau.fr

Education

Higher education

1996-2000       Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

1990-1996       Laurea in Ingegneria Civile
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (110/110 “cum  laude”)

2003-2004       Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
School of Education, Durham University, Durham, UK

 

Academic posts

2012-Pres.       Professor in Civil Engineering
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France

2010-2012       Reader in Civil Engineering
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

2007-2010       Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

2002-2007       Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Durham University, Durham, UK

2000-2002       “Marie Curie” Research Fellow
Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

1999-2000       “Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche” (Italian Research Council) Fellow
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Honorary and visiting posts

2012-Pres.       Honorary Senior Research Fellow
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

2008-2009       Visiting Lecturer in Civil Engineering
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

2004                Visiting Research Fellow
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

Responsabilities

Memberships of editorial boards

2006-2009       Member of Editorial Board of International Journal Géotechnique

2007                Member of Editorial Board of the Géotechnique Symposium in Print on “Geo-thermal Characteristics of Ground”

2008-Pres.       Member of the Scientific Committees of 9 International conferences

 

Secondments to industry (full time):

Fév.   2014      Research and Development consultant
Juil.  2014       Enterprise :UMS GmbH, Munich, Germany

Fév.   2015      Research and Development consultant
Juil.  2015       Enterprise : PESSL GmbH, Weiz, Autriche

Août 2014,      Research and Development consultant
Août 2015,      Enterprise : TECNOPENTA Srl, Padova, Italie
Août 2016      

Fév.   2016      Research and Development consultant
Juil.  2016       Enterprise : UMS GmbH, Munich, Germany

Memberships of scientific networks

2015–Pres.       EU-funded “Marie Curie” Innovative Training Network (14 partners)
Project title: Training Engineers and Researchers to Rethink geotechnical Engineering for a low carbon future (TERRE)
Role: Scientist in Charge

2013–Pres.       EU-funded “Marie Curie” Industry-Academia Partnership & Pathways (7 partners)
Project title: Monitoring systems to Assess Geotechnical Infrastructure subjected to Climatic hazards (MAGIC)
Role: Scientist in Charge
http://www.magic-iapp.com    

2004–2008      EU-funded “Marie Curie” Research Training Network (6 partners)
Project title: Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils for Engineering
Role: Network Coordinator
https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=3892 

Organisation of scientific meetings

2011                Chair and Editor of Proceedings of the
“Géotechnique Symposium in Print on Partial Saturation in Compacted Soils”
Institution of Civil Engineers, London (UK)
Number and origin of participants: 70 engineers and researchers mainly from Europe

2008                Chair and Editor of Proceedings of the
“1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT08)”
Durham University, Durham (UK)
Number and origin of participants: 155 delegates from 29 countries worldwide

2015                Member of Organizing Committee of the
“33èmes Rencontres Universitaires de Génie Civil (RUGC15)”
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France)
Number and origin of participants: 225 delegates mainly from francophone countries

Supervision

Research supervision and external examining

2002-Pres.       Supervisor of 10 PhD, 5 Postdoc and 14 Masters
Seven PhD students have graduated, one is in 1st year, one is in 3rd year and one is writing-up the dissertation. Of the seven PhD students who graduated, five hold permanent academic posts in universities in Finland, Norway, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Iraq, one holds a “Marie Curie” fellowship at a university in France and one holds an engineering position in a multinational company in the UK.

2011-Pres.       PhD Examiner in the following foreign institutions:
Imperial College (UK), Trinity College (Ireland), Queen’s University (UK), University of New South Wales (Australia), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Durham University (UK), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Publications

Keynote/invited talks at international scientific meetings

-          13 keynote/invited talks at peer-reviewed international conferences/symposia

-          9 invited seminars at different universities in Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France and UK

-          3 invited talks at international doctoral/advanced schools in Italy and France

-          50+ oral presentations in conferences

 

 

 

 

Summary of publications

-          44 refereed papers in international journals

-          49 refereed papers in international conferences

-          14 refereed papers in national conferences

-          2 edited books, 1 book chapter, 1 book review

-          2 guest editorship of international journals

Citations

-          1371 citations,  h-index = 16,  i10-index = 27
(Google Scholar)

-           838 citations,  h-index = 14,  i10-index = 18
(Scopus)

Selection of 5 recent publications relevant to the scientific domain

-          F. D’Onza, S.J. Wheeler, D. Gallipoli, M. Barrera Bucio, M. Hofmann, M. Lloret-Cabot, A. Lloret Morancho, C. Mancuso, J.-M. Pereira, E. Romero Morales, M. Sánchez, W. Solowski, A. Tarantino, D.G. Toll, R. Vassallo (2015). Benchmarking selection of parameter values for the Barcelona basic model. Engineering Geology, 196: 99–118 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2015.06.022    

-          D. Gallipoli, A.W. Bruno, F. D’Onza, C. Mancuso (2015). A bounding surface hysteretic water retention model for deformable soils. Géotechnique, 65(10): 793–804 - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680/jgeot.14.P.118  

-          T.M.H. Le, D. Gallipoli, M. Sánchez, S. Wheeler (2015). Stability and failure mass of unsaturated heterogeneous slopes. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 52(11): 1747-1761 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2014-0190   

-          V. Sivakumar, J. Zaini, D. Gallipoli, B. Solan (2015). Wetting of compacted clays under laterally restrained conditions: effects of initial state, overburden pressure and mineralogy. Géotechnique, 65(2): 111–125 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/geot.14.P.019  

-          P. Grassl, C. Fahy, D. Gallipoli, S.J. Wheeler (2015). On a 2D hydro-mechanical lattice approach for modelling hydraulic fracture. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 75: 104–118 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2014.11.011