Director

Prof. dr. ir. A. Bezuijen

Research interests:

• ground improvement
• foundation engineering
• in-situ and laboratory soil characterization

Academic staff

Em. prof. dr. ir. W. Van Impe

Research interests:

• foundation engineering
• in-situ and laboratory soil characterization
• ground improvement

Prof. dr. ir. W. Haegeman

Research interests:

• behaviour of soils at small-strain levels
• geophysical methods
• static and dynamic properties of geomaterials

Prof. dr. ir. H. Peiffer

Research interests:

• flow through (un)saturated porous media and grondwater flow
• centrifuge modelling for (un)saturated soils (patent owner)
• in situ soil testing
• foundation engineering

Prof. dr. ir. G. Di Emidio

Research interests:

• environmental geotechnics
• reuse of industrial by-products
• barrier systems
• development of new materials (HYPER clay inventor)

Prof. ir. B. Stuyts

Research interests:

• offshore foundations and geotechnics
• cables and pipelines
• data-driven design methods

Administrative and technical staff

H. De Cooman

Secretary

J. Van der Perre 

Technician

F. Van Boxstael

Technician

PHD Students

Dongzhu Zheng

Research topic: TBM excavation fluids

Muhammad Khizar Khan

Research topic: Soil improvement with recycled materials.

Chenhui Liu

Research topic: Tunnel-pile interaction

Chenghao Zhang

Research topic: Slurry infiltration characteristics under various conditions.

Zhongtian Chen

Research topic: Soil conditioning in TBM excavation

Diego Gomez-Bautista

Experimental investigation into the cyclic behavior of soils for the optimization of monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines

Post-Doc researcher

Carlos Sastre Jurado

Research topic: Integrated "digital twin" model of the offshore wind turbine