Understanding real soil behaviour for better engineering decisions.
Our research focuses on understanding and modelling the complex behaviour of soils under various environmental and dynamic conditions, improving geotechnical engineering solutions for sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
Our research capabilities are built on three complementary pillars — from lab to field, from data to model.
Capturing true soil behaviour to guide constitutive model development and establish a solid foundation for numerical simulations.
Validating design reliability, assessing safety and serviceability, identifying distress signs, and tracking real-time changes in loading and boundary conditions.
Integrating experimental and monitoring data into predictive, updatable numerical models.
Four complementary directions, one goal — understanding real soil behaviour and applying it to engineering practice.
Coupled solid-liquid-gas response under extreme climate conditions
Enriching experimental databases and developing numerical models for seismic soil behaviour
Advancing geotechnical monitoring through IoT and AI-assisted technologies
Integrating testing, monitoring and simulation to build digital replicas of infrastructure
An improved anisotropic constitutive model for soft clays, developed based on advanced laboratory testing.
Long-term collaboration with the group of Prof. Cristina Jommi and Dr. Stefano Muraro at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
FOP-M sensor for soil element testing, published in Geotechnique Letters (2025). First application of this sensor type in soil element tests worldwide.