Dr. Patrick Dangla | Engineering | Research Excellence Award
Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées | France
Dr. Patrick Dangla is a senior researcher and internationally recognized expert in civil and geotechnical engineering, with strong academic links to Southeast University and Tsinghua University. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1982, a PhD in Civil Engineering from École des Ponts ParisTech in 1989, and completed his Habilitation in Civil Engineering in 2000, focusing on energy-based and numerical approaches for unsaturated porous media. His academic and research career spans more than three decades, during which he has led and contributed to major national and international research projects on CO₂ geological storage, salt crystallization, gas-hydrate-bearing sediments, and accelerated carbonation of recycled concrete. His research interests include poromechanics, coupled hydro-mechanical and chemo-mechanical processes, durability of cementitious materials, carbonation, sulfate attack, reactive transport, and multi-scale modeling of porous media. Dr. Dangla has supervised or co-supervised more than 25 PhD candidates and actively collaborates with leading institutions and industry partners, including Electricité de France and Tsinghua University. He has authored 121 scientific documents, receiving 6,061 citations from 4,940 documents, with an h-index of 36, reflecting his strong scientific impact. Through extensive publications, project leadership, and doctoral mentoring, Dr. Dangla has made lasting contributions to sustainable construction materials, energy-related geomechanics, and advanced modeling in civil engineering.
Featured Publications
Multiphysics Modelling of 3D Concrete Printing: From Material Model to Process Simulation and Optimisation
– Additive Manufacturing, 2025 (Open Access)
Modelling the Poromechanical Behaviour of Class G Cement Paste: A Multiphysics Approach from Early Age to Hardened State
– Cement and Concrete Research, 2025
Investigation of Bituminized Waste Products Swelling Behavior Due to Water Uptake Under Confined Leaching Conditions: Experiments and Modeling
– International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2025
Combining Magnetic Resonance Imaging and X-ray Microtomography to Analyse Water Transfer in Unsaturated Expansive Clay
– Engineering Geology, 2025 (Open Access)
Exploring Two Regimes of Water Mobility in Unsaturated Expansive Clay Using NMR Relaxometry
– Applied Clay Science, 2024 (Open Access)