Education
1993 :
| PhD degree, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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1987 :
| Civil Engineer, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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Professional experience
2015 - act.
| Professor of geotechnical engineering at the Civil Engineering section of the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HEIA-FR)
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1997 - 2015
| Senior Lecturer (MER) at the Rock Mechanics Laboratory LMR, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL.
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1995 - 1997
| Researcher at the Waste and Disposal Unit of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK/CEN), Mol, Belgium.
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1994 - 1995
| Post-doc at the Geotechnical Engineering Research Centre of the City University, London, UK. Fellowship from the European Commission.
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1987 - 1994
| Research assistant, Civil Engineering Department, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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Award
Jacques Verdeyen Soil Mechanics Prize for the 1990-1994 period. Distinction awarded for the PhD thesis: Analytical and numerical methods for the design of rock excavations supported by ungrouted tensioned rockbolts (1993).
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