Professor of Underground Construction: New Appointment and Farewell
At its meeting on 18 and 19 September 2024, the ETH Board appointed numerous professors at the request of ETH President Joël Mesot, including Dr Linard Cantieni for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. As Professor of Underground Engineering, he succeeds Professor Georgios Anagnostou, who will retire in January 2025.
New appointment
Dr Linard Cantieni (*1979), currently Head of Department at the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra) in Wettingen, as Full Professor of Underground Construction in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Linard Cantieni’s research has made a significant contribution to our understanding of spatial effects in tunnelling and has helped to explain the causes of errors in determining pressure in conventional calculation models. Linard Cantieni has already collaborated closely with EPFL and ETH Zurich in the course of experiments at the Mont Terri rock laboratory. In making this appointment, ETH Zurich is ensuring that research and teaching in the field of underground construction can continue to be conducted at a high level internationally. Welcome to D-BAUG, Linard Cantieni!
Farewell
Prof. Dr. Georgios Anagnostou (*1959), currently Full Professor of Underground Construction in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, is to retire at the end of January 2025. Georgios Anagnostou joined ETH Zurich as a full professor in 2003 following many years working as a consulting engineer for tunnel building. His current research focuses on swelling in rocks containing clay and anhydrite, the behaviour of hard, brittle rock under high tension, and the stability and deformation of deep tunnels in soft soils. Georgios Anagnostou is much sought-after as a member of national and international expert committees. He twice served as Deputy Head of the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering and was Head of the Institute from 2005 to 2007. He will retire in January 2025. All the best Professor Anagnostou!