December 5, 2022
Chip lets scientists study biocement formation in real-time
Scientists from EPFL and the University of Lausanne have used a chip that was originally designed for environmental science to study the properties of biocement formation. This material has the potential to replace traditional cement binders in certain civil engineering applications. The chip has the size of a credit card and its surface is engraved with a flow channel measuring one meter from end to end and as thick as a human hair. Researchers can inject a solution into one end of the channel and, with the help of time-lapse microscopy, observe the solution’s behavior over several hours. Medical scientists have used similar chips for healthcare applications, such as to examine how arteries get clogged or how a drug spreads...
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December 5, 2022
Dr Harran Ray passed his viva
Dr Harran Ray passed his viva on 24th November 2022 after a 4-year journey that involved experiments that span between few milliliters to 120 cubic meters! His PhD thesis is titled "Mechanical performance and upscaling of bioimproved soils". Funding European Research Council Advanced Grant: Bio-mediated Geo-material Strengthening for engineering applications (BIOGEOS)
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August 18, 2022
Dr Nimisha Roy completed her academic visit at BIOGEOS this summer
It was a great pleasure to welcome at BIOGEOS and EPFL Dr. Nimisha Roy as an academic guest. Dr. Roy is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Geosystems group of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, US. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in December 2021, under the supervision of Prof. David Frost. Her Ph.D. thesis, funded by US National Science Foundation, focused on characterizing the three-dimensional pore space architecture of particulate materials and its applications in the mechanics of geomaterials and biocemented sands under static and dynamic loading. Dr Roy has received several awards as a graduate student and undergraduate instructor at Georgia Tech. She has published over 20 journal...
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