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Welcome to ISGSR 2025

NGI, in collaboration with OsloMet, will organise the 9th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR), a successful biennial series of international conferences supported by the Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet), ISSMGE Technical Committees TC304, TC205 and TC309, and ASCE Geo Institute’s Technical Committee on Risk Assessment and Management. The symposium will be held as a face-to-face event in Oslo, Norway on 25th – 28th August 2025. 

The theme of ISGSR 2025 is “Geotechnical Risk Frontiers” and will feature the latest research developments and innovations in engineering practice with a focus on the use of probabilistic and risk methodologies in geotechnical engineering. ISGSR 2025 will consist of keynote lectures, technical sessions, and forums covering but not limited to the following topics:

  • Geohazards such as landslides, dams and levees, tsunami, snow avalanches, earthquakes, and geoenvironmental hazards including those caused by human activity
  • Digital soil and rock databases and their use in geotechnical research and practice
  • Probabilistic site characterization
  • Modelling of spatial variability and effects on geotechnical design
  • Reliability- and risk-based code developments
  • Uncertainty quantification for geotechnical properties, models and testing methods
  • Bayesian statistical methods and their applications in geotechnical engineering
  • Machine Learning algorithms and their applications in geotechnical engineering
  • Best practices of hazard and risk assessment in offshore projects
  • Risk management and mitigation measures in all fields of geoengineering
  • Structural health monitoring and digital twinning
  • Practical applications and case studies

We would like to cordially invite you to be actively involved in the ISGSR 2025. 

Organizing Committee:

Zhongqiang Liu, Chair, NGI
Jian Dai, Co-Chair, OsloMet
Kate Robinson, Secretary, NGI
Victor Bjørn Smith, NGI
Minu Abraham, NGI
Unni Eidsvig, NGI
Hilde Aas Nøst, NGI
Kirsten Helness Haaland, NGI
Maren Kristine Johnsen, NGI

International Scientific Committee: 

Suzanne Lacasse, NGI, Norway 
Farrokh Nadim, NGI, Norway 
Chuangxin Lyv, OsloMet, Norway 
Wojciech Puła, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Giovanna Vessia, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Gregory Baecher, University of Maryland, USA
Renato Macciotta Pulisci, University of Alberta, Canada
Jennifer Wiliams, AECOM, USA
Jinsong Huang, University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael Hicks, TU-Delft, Netherlands
Shadi Najjar, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Jianye Ching, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Limin Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Kok-Kwang Phoon, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Mark Jaksa, University of Adelaide, Australia
Lulu Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Hongwei Huang, Tongji University, China
Gordon Fenton, Dalhousie University, Canada
D. V. Griffiths, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Iason Papaioannou, Technische Universität München, Germany
Adrián Morales Torres, iPresas, Spain
Richard J. Bathurst, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

Executive Board of Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet)

Jinsong Huang, Chair, University of Newcastle, Australia
Zhongqiang Liu, Chair-Elect, NGI
Jianye Ching, Past Chair, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Johan Spross, Secretary, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jinhui Li, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shen-Zhen), China
Kerstin Lesny, University of Siegen, Germany
Zenon Medina-Cetina, Texas A&M University, USA
Yu Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Zijun Cao, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Timo Schweckendiek, Deltares / TU Delft (both part-time), Netherlands