Organising Committee

The ICPMG 2026 is organised by the Technical Committee on Physical Modelling (TC104) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).

The organising committee of ICPMG 2026 comprises the following members:

Chair:
Prof. Ioannis Anastasopoulos, ETH Zurich

Local Organizing Committee:
Simone Alber
Dr. Athanasios Agalianos
Eva Brunschweiler
Ralf Herzog
Dr. Liam Jones
Gabriela Laios
Dr. Alexandru Marin
Dr. Max Sieber
Sonja Zwahlen

Steering Committee:
Dr. Luc Thorel, Vice Chair of TC104, Université Gustave Eiffel
Prof. Mike Brown, Secretary of TC104, University of Dundee
Prof. Tarek Abdoun, NYU Abu Dhabi
Prof. Fraser Bransby, UWA
Prof. Xianfeng Ma, Tongji University
Prof. Alexander Puzrin, ETH Zurich

Senior Advisory Panel:
Prof. Jonathan Bray, UC Berkeley
Prof. Ahmed Elgamal, UC San Diego
Prof. George Gazetas, NTUA
Prof. Charles Ng, HKUST
Prof. Mark Randolph, UWA
Prof. Sarah Springman, University of Oxford
Prof. Ikuo Towhata, University of Tokyo
Prof. Yong Yuan, Tongji University

International Scientific Committee:
Prof. Orestis Adamidis, University of Oxford
Prof. Márcio Almeida, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Prof. André Arnold, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Prof. Amin Askarinejad, TU Delft
Prof. Adam Bezuijen, TU Delft
Prof. Emilio Bilotta, University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Jonathan Black, Queens University Belfast
Dr. Matthieu Blanc, Université Gustave Eiffel
Prof. Miguel Angel Cabrera, TU Delft
Prof. Bernardo Caicedo, University of the Andes
Dr. Chia-Han Chen, Narlabs
Prof. Siau Chen Chian, National University of Singapore
Prof. Clarence Choi, The University of Hong Kong
Prof. Shiaohuey Chow, University of Melbourne
Prof. Andrea Ciancimino, Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Paulo Coelho, University of Coimbra
Dr. Hong Lam Dang, University of Transport and Communications
Prof. Shideh Dashti, University of Colorado Boulder
Prof. Cristina De Hollanda Cavalcanti Tsuha, University of São Paulo
Prof. Jason DeJong, UC Davis
Dr. Sam Divall, City University
Prof. Waleed Elsekelly, New York University Abu Dhabi
Dr. Sandra Escoffier, Université Gustave Eiffel
Dr. José Estaire, CEDEX
Prof. Vincenzo Fioravante, University of Ferrara
Prof. Sebastiano Foti, Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Raul Fuentes, RWTH Aachen
Prof. Christophe Gaudin, UWA
Prof. Nikos Gerolymos, NTUA
Prof. Majid Ghayoomi, University of New Hampshire
Prof. Juergen Grabe, TU Hamburg
Prof. Muhammad Shazzad Hossain, UWA
Prof. SW Jacobsz, University of Pretoria
Prof. Fardin Jafarzadeh Sharif, University of Technology
Dr. Orianne Jenck, Université Grenoble Alpes
Prof. Ashish Juneja, IIT Bombay
Prof. Viroon Kamchoom, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Prof. Jonathan Knappett, University of Dundee
Dr. Diethard König, Ruhr University Bochum
Dr. Eva Korre, Dr. Vollenweider AG
Prof. Panagiotis Kotronis, Ecole Centrale de Nantes
Prof. Tae-Hyuk Kwon, KAIST
Prof. Ying Lai, Zhejiang University
Prof. Jan Laue, Luleå University of Technology
Prof. Christian Ledezma, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Prof. Anthony Leung, HKUST
Prof. Chun Fai Leung, National, University of Singapore
Dr. Marianna Loli, GRID Engineers
Prof. Gopal Madabhushi, University of Cambridge
Prof. Alec Marshall, University of Nottingham
Prof. Alejandro Martinez, UC Davis
Prof. Maria Rossella Massimino, University of Catania
Prof. Andrew McNamara, City University
Prof. Mitsu Okamura, Ehime University
Prof. Heon-Joon Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Prof. Dimitris Pitilakis, AUTH
Dr. João Portugal, LNEC
Prof. Mavinakere Raghunandan, Monash University Malaysia
Dr. Phil Robins, BECA
Dr. Shengjie Rui, NGI
Prof. Fernando Saboya, UENF
Dr. Lampros Sakellariadis, GR8 GEO
Prof. Inthuorn Sasanakul, University of South Carolina
Prof. José Antonio Schiavon, Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Prof. Jean-François Semblat, ENSTA-Paris
Prof. Taisia Shepitko, University of Transport (MIIT), Moscow
Prof. Francesco Silvestri, University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Enrico Soranzo, BOKU Vienna
Dr. Emmanouil Spyropoulos, Saudi Aramco
Prof. Mahdi Taiebat, University of British Columbia
Prof. Hidenori Takahashi, Port and Airport Research Institute
Prof. Andy Take, Queen’s University
Prof. Mark Talesnick, Technion
Prof. Anthony Tessari, University at Buffalo
Prof. Berrak Teymur, Istanbul Technical University
Prof. Tetsuo Tobita, Kansai University
Dr. Rasmus Tofte Klinkvort, NGI
Prof. Kyohei Ueda, Kyoto University
Prof. Giulia Viggiani, University of Cambridge
Prof. B.V.S. Viswanadham, IIT Bombay
Prof. Christos Vrettos, TU Kaiserslautern
Prof. Anh Tuan Vu, Le Quy Don Technical University
Prof. Rui Wang, Tsinghua University
Dr. Thomas Weber, Studer Engineering
Prof. Dave White, University of Southampton
Dr. Daniel Wilson, UC Davis
Prof. Ming Xu, Tsinghua University
Prof. Hauke Zachert, TU Darmstadt
Prof. Varvara Zania, DTU
Prof. A.A. Zaytsev, ITMO University
Prof. Limin Zhang, HKUST
Prof. Yan-Guo Zhou (Eagle), Zhejiang University
Prof. Katerina Ziotopoulou, UC Davis

ISSMGE and TC104

The International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) is the leading professional body representing the interests and activities of Engineers, Academics and Contractors worldwide, who actively participate in geotechnical engineering. With 90 Member Societies and 21,000 individual members from around the globe, ISSMGE serves as the hub for geotechnical engineering professionals.

The Technical Committee 104 (TC104) plays a vital role in advancing knowledge and practice in the field of physical modelling in geotechnical engineering. Through establishing working groups, TC104 facilitates the sharing of resources for teaching, research, and the dissemination of physical modelling in geotechnical engineering.

The ICMPG constitutes the biggest gathering of the physical modelling community, offering a forum for academics, engineers, researchers, technicians and students, where the latest developments in modelling techniques, technologies, similitude laws, and all other aspects of physical modelling in geotechnics can be discussed. Following preliminary workshops in Manchester, California and Tokyo (all in 1984), the 1st International Conference (Centrifuge 88) was initiated in Paris in 1988, under the leadership of Prof. Jean-François Corté. It was initially scheduled every 3 years, and since 1994 it has been taking place every 4 years. The 11^th ICPMG follows a series of very successful such events, with the latest being the 10^th ICPMG, which was held in Daejoon, South Korea, jointly organized by KAIST and K-water Research.