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EDUCATIONAL PROFILE

2005		Ecole des Mines de Paris, Centre de Géotechnique et d'Exploitation du Sous-Sol (CGES) PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, Defended in December 2005 (Mention very honourable) Influence of water and aqueous solutions on the mechanical behaviour of shale.
		Jury members: Jack-Pierre PIGUET (ANDRA), Isam SHAHROUR (EUDIL), Alain MILLARD (CEA), Amel REJEB (IRSN), Michel TIJANI (ENSMP), Laurent DE WINDT (ENSMP), Faouzi HADJ-HASSEN (ENSMP)
2001-2002		Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, MSSMat Master’s Degree (MS) in Soils and Rock Mechanics (Mention good)
1995-2000		Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering Bachelor of Science (BS) in Civil Engineering (Mention very good)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002-2005		Ecole des Mines de Paris, Centre de Géosciences Research Engineer Laboratory and in situ experiments of rock and modelling the stability of underground structures with Finite Element Code. Application to Mine, Borehole and Tunnel
2001-2002		Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (CERMES) Master's training Experimental and theoretical studies of suspension injection in a granular medium. Application to cement grouts
		Jury members: Jean-Louis FAVRE (ECP), Jean CANOU (ENPC), Jean-Claude DUPLA (ENPC), Zied SAADA (ENPC)
2000-2001		GETEC Consulting, Lebanon Consultant in the design and analysis of reinforced concrete and precast/prestressed concrete for the international highway between Lebanon and Syria
Sum. 1999		BAUER Group Training course Field supervision for Lugeon test and grouting for Berdawni River Project (Lebanon)
Sum. 1998		Jean Hadathi Entreprise Training course Field supervision of Hydraulic project for Zahle City (Lebanon)

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MISCELLANEOUS

• Academic Qualifications
  


• Member of French Doctor’s Association ANDèS
  
• Member of order of Engineers of Beirut OEB


• Talks in congress and seminars :
  
  
• Geotechnical International Symposium (Lebanon)
  
• Geotechnical Seminar (Austria)
  
• Underground Structure Seminar (Belgium)
  
• Post Mining 2005 (France)
  


• Publications :
  
  
• Study of the clayey rock behaviour under the action of water
  
• Stability of ground by grouting
  
• Effect of water on the mechanical behaviour of shales
  


• Rapports internes à l’Ecole des Mines de Paris :
  
  
• Experimental and theoretical studies of the swelling of shale
  
• Influence of stress on the rock swelling
  
• Irreversibility of free deformations induced by swelling/shrinkage phenomenon of clay
  
• Estimation of diffusion coefficient. Application for the chemical change with HYTEC
  
• Hydro-mechanical coupling. Application for mine
  

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LANGUAGES

• Arabic : Native language
  
• French : fluent
  
• English : very good
  

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COMPUTER SKILLS

• Operating systems : Dos, Windows, Unix
  
• Civil engineering software’s : Robot 2000, Winrdm, Talren, Foxta, Pca, Autocad
  
• Hydrological softwares : Hydref, Hytec
  
• Finite element softwares : Viplef-ENSMP
  
• Programming languages : Fortran 77, C++, Visual Basic, Matlab
  

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HOBBIES

• Sports : tennis, basket-ball, swimming
  
• Intellectual Life: participation with the association Nicolas WAKIM which rewards the winner prizes in various disciplines ( French and Arabic Literatures, Poetry, Classical music...)
  
• Help associations : AFAAL-AUXILIA for Lebanese orphans
  

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