• soil and rock mechanics
• material properties and fundamental behaviour
• site characterization
• foundations
• excavations
• tunnels
• dams and embankments
• slopes, landslides
• geological and rock engineering
• ground improvement
• bio-geotechnics
• Geotechnical earthquake engineering
• liquefactions,
• waste management,
• geosynthetics,
• offshore engineering,
• risk and reliability in geotechnical engineering applications,
• physical and numerical modelling,
• geotechnical case-history.