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Vice President for Europe

Prof. Muriel Gasc-Barbier

France

E-mail:  muriel.gasc -at- cerema.fr

 

Curriculum Vitae

Dc Muriel Gasc-Barbier is a senior scientist in the research team GeoCOD (Geomaterials and Geomechanics: couplings and dynamics for geotechnical structures and risks) at the Cerema which is a French public board dedicated to risks, environment, and territory development. She is located in Aix-en-Provence, France.
 
She graduated as a geophysical and geotechnical Engineer in Paris in 1996 and obtained a Ph.D. in Geosciences, at Paris Sorbonne University in 2002.  Her PhD thesis was focused mainly on experimental aspects of the chemo-hydro mechanical behavior of claystones and their creep behavior. In 2003, She was appointed as a junior researcher in Rock Mechanics at the “Laboratoire Régional des Ponts et Chaussées” which is the former name of the Cerema in Toulouse (France). Ever since, she has developed her research on geological engineering and rock mechanics for civil engineering. She works on the mechanical behavior of fractured rock masses developing experimental and theoretical approaches, working on the analysis and modeling of fracturing, its geometric distribution, and the study of induced biases, all applied in tunnels, large cuttings, or rock foundations. In the last 10 years she became deeply involved in rockslides, landslides and the influence of the climate on the instabilities with a special interest in thermal fatigue.

As she doesn’t work in a university but for a French Public board, most of her research is based on site investigations and expertise. she has written about 30 scientific papers, more than 70 reports, and participated to several national and European Inter Regional projects. In the meantime, as she wants to promote rock mechanics for young engineers, she’s teaching rock mechanics in Sorbonne University, in Paris for 12 years and, 4 years ago, published a book in French, for master or engineering school students dedicated to “rock mechanics for civil engineering.”
She has been member of the ISRM since 1999, member of the Board of the French group since 2012, Vice-president from 2016 to date. She is also president of Pierre Londe Price, the French equivalent of the Rocha medal.