is a Professor in the Civil Eng. Dept of IUT of Saint-Nazaire and at the Institute GeM. Since 2002, he has developed a new research field at UN, dedicated to the study of internal erosion processes. Prof. Marot is the head of the research team “Interactions between Water and Geomaterials” of the Institute GeM. He is also the head of the research group focusing on experimental characterizations and numerical simulations of internal erosion processes and their consequences on the soils mechanical behavior.

is an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Dept. of IUT of Saint-Nazaire and at the Institute GeM. She joined the erosion research group at UN to apply her expertise in constitutive and finite element modeling with the objective to model the suffusion process at the macroscale, such as the scale of a sample and in the future of a structure. She has developed her expertise by modeling the thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of double porous media in the context of enhanced geothermal systems. She is now focusing on the estimation of the suffusion sensitivity at the structure scale, on the modeling of suffusion by use of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, on the modeling of the mechanical consequences of suffusion and on the description of the suffusion kinetics based on the energy method.

is an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Department of Polytech’Nantes and at the

GeM Institute. He joined the erosion research group at UN in 2009 where he brings his expertise in soil mechanical tests and in the development of new apparatuses. He contributed to the development of three triaxial erodimeters to perform suffusion tests under vertical downward flow with increasing and decreasing multistage hydraulic gradients.

is a Doctor in Process Engineering. She joined Capacités and the research team “Interactions between Water and Geomaterials” of the GeM Institute in 2010 after a dedicated training in Civil Engineering. She is responsible for meeting business needs and expectations in terms of innovation, product and process development, in partnership with the researchers of the team. She also actively contributes to the design of new equipment and to the development of new testing procedures.

is the private subsidiary of Nantes University (UN) dedicated to the development of research and innovation. It is the permanent interface between innovation needs of socioeconomic players and laboratory resources.

graduated in Hydraulics and Geotechnics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France and has a 26 year experience in River hydraulics and embankment dams at Electricité de France (EDF). He is currently embankment Dam Expert at the EDF Hydro Engineering Centre where he supervises safety assessment studies and design studies of dam rehabilitation and new projects. He is also leading the EDF R&D effort in the fields of erosion of embankment dams and seismic analysis of embankment dams. Moreover, he is the co-author of an international database dedicated to earth structure instabilities.