Keynote lectures -- New !!

Don't miss the three keynote lectures given by well renowned experts during Rocexs:

• Integrated Risk Management & Monitoring in Switzerland, presentation given by  Christophe Denervaud ⁽¹⁾

•  Behaviour of flexible rockfall barriers under impacts: a numerical approach to enhance experimental investigations, will be presented by Marie Aurélie Chanut ⁽³⁾

(1) Christophe DENERVAUD is a geologist with 25 years of experience in natural hazards, protective infrastructure and raw-materials governance. Since 2022 he has been Protection Structures Expert at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and deputy head of the Landslides–Avalanches–Protective Forests section, responsible for federal oversight, programme agreements, project management, expert committees and national technical guidance.

(2) Giovani B. CROSTA is presently professor at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences). Giovanni does research in Engineering Geology, Rock and Soil Mechanics, Hydrogeology, Geomorphology and Geoinformatics (GIS). He collaborates with various universities and research institutes and participates to several european and international projects. Over the last 30 years, he authored many contributions on landslides-related topics. 

(3) Marie-Aurélie CHANUT, who obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, has been working in the field of rockfall risk since 2009. She is currently a researcher at Cerema, within the GéoCoD team. Her research focuses on two main areas: the development of 3D point cloud processing methods for assessing the evolution of gravitational movements, and the behaviour of protection structures under impact, particularly flexible barrier systems.

She has been involved in the two french research programs PN C2ROP and PN C2ROP2, and led the Flexible Barriers Working Group, through which extensive experimental campaigns were carried out. These campaigns have made it possible, on the one hand, to investigate the experimental behaviour of flexible barriers and, on the other hand, to develop numerical modelling approaches for these structures through several PhD theses.