Jean Sulem
Jean Sulem is Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and Research Director. He has been the Director of CERMES (2010-2020) and then the Director of Laboratoire Navier (2020-2024).
Jean Sulem is Past-President of the French Society of Rock Mechanics. Since 2020, he is Editor-in-chief of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (Springer).
His research interests are related to Bifurcation theory applied to stability and strain localisation analyses, Constitutive Modelling of geomaterials, Experimental Rock Mechanics, Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of geomaterials with applications to tunnelling, Energy-related rock engineering, Deep geological storage, Fault mechanics.
Jean Sulem has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several books among them: Vardoulakis, I. and Sulem, J. , 1995, Bifurcation Analysis in Geomechanics, Taylor & Francis, M. Panet & J. Sulem, 2022, Convergence-confinement method for tunnel design, Springer).
In 2018, Jean Sulem received the Vardoulakis lecture Award from the University of Minnesota and in 2022 the prestigious Science Achievement Award from the International Society of Rock Mechanics.
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