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Keynotes/Features > Keynote SpeakersSpecial Keynote Speaker  Mark W. Hilburger, Ph.D. Principal Technologist for Structures and Materials, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters (NASA/HQ), Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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Keynote Speakers Robert Anderson, Ph.D, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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 Félix Darve, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, Grenoble INP, Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire 3SR, CNRS, Grenoble, France.
Title: Extraterrestrial granular avalanches, a proper instability criterion
Félix Darve is Emeritus Professor at Grenoble-INP, Grenoble Alpes University, CNRS, France. He is also editor of the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (Wiley). He is former Director of the Grenoble National School of Hydraulics and Mechanics, the CNRS national laboratory "GRECO Géomatériaux" and the European network of laboratories "ALERT Geomaterials". He has edited or co-edited 16 books and is author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. His main research topic is computational granular mechanics with applications to natural hazards.
 Pierre Delage, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, IP Paris, Laboratoire Navier/CNRS, Champs-sur-Marne, France.
Pierre Delage, Emeritus Professor at Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, IP Paris, is member of the French Academy of Agriculture and of the InSight Science Team (InSight is a NASA geophysical mission on Mars). He has been Vice-President of the French Geotechnical Committee (CFMS), Chief editor of the Revue Française de Géotechnique and of Géotechnique Letters (ICE), Panel member of Géotechnique (ICE) and of various other journals. He has been Chair of the Technical Oversight Committee and is now in charge of the Geo-Engineers without Borders (GeoWB) project of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He developed researches on the fundamental mechanisms governing the response of multi-phase geomaterials submitted to changes in stress, water content and temperature (for sensitive clays, deep marine sediments, unsaturated soils, compacted soils, compacted bentonite, loess, oil reservoir chalks, oil sands, geosynthetic clay liners, shales, Martian and Lunar regolith), with applications to earth-dams and embankments, deep geological radioactive waste disposal, offshore oil extraction, thermal behaviour of clays and claystones, soil contamination and seismic wave propagation at the surface of planets. Ramesh B. Malla, Ph.D. Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A, Chair, ASCE/Aerospace Division (ASD) -Space Engineering and Construction Technical Committee (SEC TC), U.S.A.
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Olivier Millet, Olivier Millet, Ph.D. Professor, La Rochelle Université, LaSIE, CNRS, La Rochelle, France.
Olivier MILLET is Professor at La Rochelle University, attached to the LaSIE-UMR CNRS. His main areas of research are homogenization in porous media and transfer properties in cementitious materials, multi-scale approaches in solid mechanics and geomechanics, micromechanical analysis of dry and partially saturated granular materials, and modeling of thin structures. He is director of the international research network (IRN) GeoMech “Multiphysics and multiscale couplings in geo-environmental mechanics” since 2016. He was a member of the Comité national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) from 2016 to 2021, responsible for three microgravity parabolic flight campaigns with the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) on the theme “Study of capillary bridges in microgravity”, and scientific leader of several national and regional scientific projects. He has published around 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is author or co-author of 3 books.  Anil Misra, Ph.D. Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL, U.S.A. Chair, ASCE/Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) -Granular Materials Technical Committee (GMTC), U.S.A.
Anil Misra is currently a Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Florida International University. Dr. Misra has a broad research interest that spans topics covering both basic and applied aspects of mechanics of geomaterials, interfaces and biomaterials, including analytical, computational and experimental granular micromechanics, particle and atomistic methods, multi-scale modeling, constitutive behavior, micro-macro correlations, and multi-modal material characterization using high resolution techniques. In particular, he has pioneered the granular micromechanics approach (GMA) with which he seeks to develop generalized (micromorphic) continuum model of a range of granular materials and materials with granular texture, including geomaterials, biomaterials, cement/asphalt concrete, polymers, and architected/metamaterials. He is deeply interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of mechanics and material science. He has co-edited four books; guest edited four journal special issues; and authored more than 300 papers in journals, edited books and conference proceedings. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Mechanics Research Communications and serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for a number of journals as well as for funding agencies. He has been honored with the 2017 Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize, and Chair/Visiting Professorships at a number of international universities (webpage).  François Nicot, PhD, Professor, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Laboratoire ISTerre, CNRS, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France. Title: Granular Materials and Thermodynamics: The Missing Link
Dr. F. Nicot is currently Professor at Savoie Mont Blanc University. He received his Engineer and PhD degrees in civil engineering on 1995 and 1999, respectively, at Centrale School of Lyon (France). As a world-renowned researcher in mechanics of granular materials, his activities deal with geomechanics, with a special focus on micromechanics and physics of granular materials and multiscale failure modeling. Application fields span from constitutive modeling of geomaterials to gravity-driven natural hazards analysis, including slope engineering issues. He has published more than 200 articles, including 170 papers in international journals together with more than 20 collective books. He is deputy director of the International Research Network GeoMech (Multi-Physics and Multi-scale Couplings in Geo-environmental Mechanics), gathering more than 25 academic institutions over the world. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering (T&F Publ.), and he is Associate Editor of Water Science and Engineering (Elsevier) and Granular Matter (Springer Publ.)
Heather A. Oravec, Ph.D, Research Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A. Research Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, U.S.A.
 Farhang Radjai, Ph.D. senior Director of Research in CNRS, Physique et Mecanique des Milieux Divises (PMMD), LMGC (UMR CNRS 5508), Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Dr Farhang Radjai is a senior Director of Research in National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. He graduated from University Paris-Sud in 1993 with a master in theoretical physics. He obtained his PhD degree in 1995 in the same university for his work on granular materials. After three years of postdoc in Ülich Supercomputing Center and University of Duisburg in Germany, he joined the CNRS with a research position in the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Lab in Montpellier, France. His research is focused on granular materials from a modeling perspective and in a cross-disciplinary context involving physics and mechanics with applications to geomaterials, powder processing, geological surface processes, and biomaterials. He popularized the contact dynamics method for discrete simulation of granular materials and developed advanced particle dynamics algorithms for complex granular materials. With his collaborators, he carried out the first extensive parametric simulations of submerged granular flows, packings of polyhedral, elongated and nonconvex particles, and highly polydisperse granular materials. He also analyzed the influence of such realistic material parameters on the rheology and microstructure (shear strength, dilatancy, anisotropy, connectivity) of granular flows. |
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