Said TAIBI

Said TAIBI is a professor at the University of Le Havre Normandie (Normandy University), Laboratory of waves and complex media (LOMC), UMR CNRS 6294.

After an engineer degree in Civil Engineering and a DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), he defended a PhD thesis in 1994 at the Ecole Centrale Paris, followed by a post-doctoral research activity at the CNRS in collaboration with EDF. He then joined the University of Le Havre in 1997 where he led a research theme dealing with multiphase porous media and the behavior of unsaturated soils.

His research focuses on Thermo-Hydro-mechanical behavior laws of unsaturated soils, multiphase flows in geomaterials and coupled hygro-thermal transfers in unsaturated soils. The fields of application concern, among others, Environmental Geotechnics, Natural Hazards, Waste Storage and Recovery, engineered clay barriers, the development of bio-sourced Eco-Geo-Building Materials, especially based on raw earth…

• Reviewer for about ten international scientific journals.
• Member of the Editorial Committee of PURH (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre) since 2021.
• Scientific leader of many research projects at LOMC, such as “Cématerre”, “FONDEOL”, “ANR Terre Durable”…
• Expert for the ANR “AAP Villes et Bâtiments Durables”, for the COMEVAL (Commission d’Evaluation des Chercheurs) and OSEO (project evaluation).
• Member of the board of the Research Federation FR SCALE (Sciences Appliquées à L’Environnement; FR CNRS 3730 SCALE).
• He has supervised or co-supervised 27 doctoral theses, 22 of which have been defended and 5 in progress.
• Author or co-author of about 170 papers, including 2 book chapters and 70 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.