Supervision

Overview of supervision

cycle number of students
Post-doctorat 7
Doctorat 16
Master’s with thesis 10
Master’s without thesis 17
Master’s  equivalent
7
Bachelor’s degree
50 +

Supervisions in progress

Post-doctorat

Student Start finish Project / Thesis title Position
Rama Vara Prasad Chavali 2021/01 2022/01 Geotechnical engineering Principal Supervisor
Alireza Shahbazi 2022/02 2022/ Hydro-Geomechanics Principal Supervisor
Mahdi Askaripour 2022/05  Rock Mechanics  Principal Supervisor
Mohammad Salsabili 2022/04  Geotechnical engineering Principal Supervisor
Esmaeil Eslami 2021 2022  Geomechanics  Principal Supervisor
Abbas Kamali Bandpey 2020/2 2021/12 Erodibilty of dam spillways Principal Supervisor
Shahriar Heydarzadeh 2019/1 2021/12 Rock burst risk evaluation in the underground structures Principal Supervisor

Doctorat

Student Start finish Project / Thesis title Position
Hossain A S M Fahad 2021/09 2024/09  Assessment of cyclic behaviour of sensitive clays of Laflamme Sea Principal Supervisor
Karnati Vineeth Reddy 2021/09 2024/09 Develop a rock mass quality index for dam spillways erosion using experimental and numerical method Principal Supervisor
Behzad Dastjerdy 2021/01 2024/01 Determination of the Impact of Geomechanical Parameters of Metamorphic Rocks on Rockburst Occurrence Principal Supervisor
Zinan Urmi 2020/09 2023/09 Prediction of retrogressive landslide in the sensitive clays of Laflamme Sea with the material point method​ Principal Supervisor
Mahsa Mahdavirad 2020/09 2023/09 Determining the effect of rock mass properties (rock block volume and joint shear strength) on erodability of unlined dam spillways with experimental and numerical methods Principal Supervisor
Sarah Jacob 2020/09 2023/09  An experimental investigation on the remoulding energy for liquefaction of sensitive clay in Laflamme Sea Principal Supervisor
Vahid Hosseinpour 2019/04 2022/04 Development of a damage simulator to assess the seismic vulnerability of electrical infrastructures Principal Supervisor
Yavar Jalili Kashtiban 2019/04 2022/04 Evaluation of the effects of important rock mass parameters on erosion at the laboratory scale Principal Supervisor
Yassine Brahami 2018/08 2021/08 Development of a behaviour model for concrete as a function of red mud content under axial compression stress Co-Supervisor
Alireza Shahbazi 2018/08 2022/02 Evaluating the impact of structural parameters on water flow in rocky joint rock mass using back-analysis Principal Supervisor
Mohammad Salsabili 2018/08 2022/04 Integrating geological and geotechnical uncertainties in probabilistic seismic microzonation Principal Supervisor
Mahdi Askaripour 2018/01 2022/05 Evaluation of the degree of metamorphismon of rock mass on the rockburst risk in underground mining Principal Supervisor
Lamine Boumaiza 2016/08 2019/08 Erodibility risk evaluation of Hydro-Québec dams Principal Supervisor

Master

Student Start finish Project / Thesis title Position
Elaheh Motahari Moghadam 2021 2023 determination of hydraulic parameters of smooth surface dam’s spillway using experimental and numerical modelling Principal Supervisor
Marie-Hélène Wisse 2020/9 2022/9 Erodibility of dam spillways Principal Supervisor
Lisa Depriester 2018/9 2020/8 Assessment of the possibility of granting the Saint Jean Vianney site a Geo-Risk site status Co-Supervisor
Aboubacar-Sidiki Koulibaly 2019/9 2021/9 Erodibility of dam spillways Principal Supervisor
Blanche Richer 2018/5 2020/8 Landslide risk assessment of the Saint Jean-Vianney site in relation to the planned development by the City of Saguenay Principal Supervisor
Amande-Gaston Sanou 2017/9 2019/8 Statistical distribution of the physical and mechanical parameters of sensitive clays in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region Principal Supervisor
Karolan Tremblay 2017/8 2019/9 3-D modelling of the Bousquet Fault in the Westwood Mine and determining the geomechanical parameters of the rock mass along the fault Principal Supervisor
John-Jr Mc-Lean 2016/05 2019/4  Determining the friction strength piles foundations in permafrost soils Principal Supervisor

Graduates

Student cycle Finish Project / Thesis title Position
Shahriar Heydarzadeh
Doctorate
2018/12 Development of a methodology for assessing the probability of failure in mining stopes operated by sublevel stopping methods Principal Supervisor
Hicham Farid
Doctorate
2016/11 Experimental and numerical characterization of visco-elastic behaviour
of atmospheric ice in icing conditions on power transmission lines
Present Position.
Co-Supervisor
Blanche Richer
Maîtrise
2020/4 Landslide risk assessment of the Saint Jean-Vianney site in relation to the planned development by the City of Saguenay Principal Supervisor
Thomas Foulon
Maîtrise
2016/12 Micro seismic zoning of the city of Saguenay and risk assessment of some public buildings Principal Supervisor
Catherine Lavoie
Maîtrise
2018/4 Analysis of the effect of underground backfilling at Niobec Mine on
stope stability
Principal Supervisor
Sandra Lalancette
Maîtrise
2017/10 Design of backfilled stops of Niobec Mine by 3D numerical modelling Principal Supervisor

Professor at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi