Past Conferences

8th Biot Conference on Poromechanics (BIOT-8)

The University of Utah | S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT | October 7-10, 2025
Co-Chairs: Pania Newell, Sanghyun Lee, and Stanislav Glubokovskikh 

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• Plenary Speakers

  What is the Status of Biot’s Dynamic Theory of Wave Propagation in Porous Media?
  Robert Zimmerman, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE 
  Professor, Chair in Rock Mechanics Department of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
  Imperial College London

  Homogenization enriched with spatial correlation functions for geomaterials
  Chloé Arson, Ph.D., M.ASCE 
  Professor, M.Eng. Director, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  Cornell University

  Cold region computational poromechanics
  Steve Waiching Sun, Ph.D., M.ASCE 
  Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
  Columbia University

• Book of Abstracts

  Book of Abstracts (.PDF)

EMI 2025

University of CA, Irvine | Marriott Anaheim, Irvine, CA | May 27-30, 2025
Co-Chairs: MJ Qomi, Ph.D., Ramin Bostanabad, Ph.D.

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• Plenary Speakers

  Kevin M. Rosso, Ph.D.
  Lab Fellow, Chemist; CUSSP Director, Physical Sciences
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  
  Sigrid Adriaenssens, Ph.D., F.SEI, A.M.ASCE
  Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Director, Program in Mechanics, Materials and Structures
  Princeton University
  
  Houman Owhadi, Ph.D.
  Professor
  Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems
  California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  Gaussian Processes for Scientific Machine Learning: From Function Approximation to Model Discovery
  
  Brett F. Sanders, Ph.D., EIT, F.EMI, F.EWRI, A.M.ASCE
  Chancellor’s Professor
  University of California Irvine
  
  Laura De Lorenzis, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
  Deputy Head of Dept. of Mechanical and Process Engineering
  Deputy Head of Institute of Mechanical Systems, ETH Zürich
  Variational Phase-field Modeling of Fracture: Towards Second-Generation Models
  

• Award Winners

  Award Winners

• Fellows

  Elisabeth Malsch, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI
  Managing Principal Thornton Tomasetti

  Paolo Gardoni, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE. F.EMI
  Alfredo H. Ang Family Professor and an Excellence Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Sanjay Govindjee, Ph.D., F.EMI
  Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson Professor in Engineering University of California, Berkeley

• Student Competition Winners

  Student Competition Winners

EMI/PMC 2024

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Palmer Hotel, Chicago IL | May 28-31, 2024
Co-Chairs: Arif Masud, Ph.D., Paolo Gardoni Ph.D.

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• Plenary Speakers

  • Oral Buyukozturk, Ph.D., F.EMI, F.ASCE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ross Barry Corotis, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., NAE, F.EMI, F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Anne S Kiremidjian, Ph.D., NAE, Dist.M.ASCE, Stanford University 
  • Julio M. Ottino, Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Jamie Padgett, Ph.D., Rice University

• Award Winners

  Award Winners

• Book of Abstracts

  Book of Abstracts (.PDF)

• Student Competition Winners

  Student Competition Winners

• Fellows

  James K. Guest, Ph.D., F.EMI, A.M.ASCE
  Professor, Engineering, Department of Civil and Systems
  John Hopkins University

  Kalpana Katti, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
  Professor, Department of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering
  North Dakota State University

  Junho Song, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
  Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Dean, School of Transdisciplinary Innovations
  Seoul National University

  R. Panneer Selvam, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE
  Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas
  George Macomber Professor in Construction Management; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Program

  Program (.PDF)

EMI 2024-IC

Tu Wien | Austria, Vienna
Co-Chairs: Christian HELLMICH, Bernhard PICHLER, Stefan SCHEINER

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• Plenary Speakers

  • Zdenek P. Bazant, Ph.D., S.E., NAS, NAE, F.EMI, Dist.M.ASCE, Northwestern University
  • Emanuela Del Gado, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE, Georgetown University
  • Agathe Robisson, Ph.D., TU Wien
  • Alfredo Soldati, , Ph.D., TU Wien
  • Pol D. Spanos, Ph.D., P.E., NAE, F.EMI, Dist.M.ASCE , Rice University
  • Franz-Josef Ulm, Ph.D., NAE, F.EMI, M.ASCE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Book of Abstracts

  Book of Abstracts (.PDF)

• Program

  Program (.PDF)

EMI 2023

Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA | June 6-9, 2023 
Co-Chairs: Yang Wang, Ph.D., Chloe Arson Ph.D.

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• Award Winners

  Award Winners

• Plenary Speakers

  • Eleni Chatzi, Associate Professor, ETH 
  • Genda Chen, Professor, Missouri Science & Technology University
  • Yuri Bazilevs, Professor, Brown University
  • Catherine O’Sullivan, Professor, Imperial College London
  • Chad M. Landis, Professor, UT Austin
  • Daniel Straub, Ph.D., Technical University of Munich

• Student Competition Winners

  Student Competition Winners

• Fellows

  • Ramesh Agarwal, Ph.D., F.EMI, F.ASCE, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Bjorn Birgisson, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE, Chair, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia
  • John Charles Brigham, Ph.D., F.EMI, A.M.ASCE, Associate Professor, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
  • Oral Buyukozturk, Ph.D., F.EMI, F.ASCE, George Macomber Professor in Construction Management; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Noël Challamel, Ph.D., F.EMI, Aff.M.ASCE, Professor, IRDL, Univ. Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
  • Jia-Liang Le, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, M.ASCE, Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • Babak Moaveni, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
  • Hayder A. Rasheed, P.E., F.EMI, F.SEI, F.ASCE, Professor of Structural Engineering, Kansas State University
  • Hao Wang, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers University

• Book of Abstracts

  Book of Abstracts (.PDF)

• Program

  Program (.PDF)

EMI 2023-IC

University of Palermo | Palermo, Italy | August 27-30, 2023
Chair: Prof. Massimo MIDIRI, Antonina Pirrota, Prof. Pol D. SPANOS

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• Plenary Speakers

  • Christoph Adam,  Universität Innsbruck
  • Raimondo Luciano, University of Naples Parthenope
  • Carsten Proppe, Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology

• Book of Abstracts

  Book of Abstracts (.PDF)

• Program

  Program (.PDF)

EMI 2022

Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD  | May 31-June 3, 2022
Profs. James Guest and Somnath Ghosh

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• Award Winners

  Award Winners

• Fellows

  Haim Waisman, Ph.D, F.EMI

• Student Competition Winners

  Student Competition Winners

• Book of Abstracts

  Book of Abstracts

Past Conferences

• Fellows

  Fellows List

• 2019-2015

  2019

  • EMI 2019 CalTech, Pasadena, CA, June 18-21, 2019
    Program
    Book of Abstracts
  • EMI 2019-IC La Doua Campus, INSA Lyon – France, July 3 – 5, 2019
    Program

  2018

  • EMI 2018 MIT, Boston, MA, May 29-June 1, 2018
    Program
  • EMI 2018-IC Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2 – 4 November, 2018
    Program

  2017

  • EMI 2017 University of California San Diego (San Diego - California, USA)
    Program
  • EMI 2017-IC Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
    Program

  2016

  • EMI 2016 Vanderbilt University (Nashville - Tennessee, USA) ;
  • EMI 2016-IC University of Lorraine (Metz, France)

  2015

  • EMI 2015 Stanford University (Stanford - California, USA)
  • EMI 2015-IC Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, China)

• 2014-2008

  • EMI 2008: University of Minnesota, (Minneapolis-Minnesota, USA)
  • EMI 2009: Virginia Tech (Blacksburg- Virginia, USA)
  • EMI 2010: University of Southern California (Los Angeles - California, USA)
  • EMI 2011: Northeastern University (Boston - Massachusetts, USA)
  • EMI 2012: University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame - Indiana, USA)
  • EMI 2013: Northwestern University (Evanston - Illinois, USA)
  • EMI 2014: McMaster University (Hamilton - Ontario, Canada)