Federica Sandrone

from 2008: Engineer at SBB-Infrastructure, responsible for Tunnels Management and Maintenancefrom 2007: Assistant for the courses "Tunnel Engineering" and "Underground Construction Technology"2004-2008: PhD Student (Structure Doctoral Program) at LMR-EPFLPhD degree: February 2008 at EPFL with a thesis entitled "Analysis of pathologies and long term behaviour of the Swiss National Road tunnels"2003: Assistant at the Georesources and Landscape Department of Politecnico di Torino (TUSC). Main research domains: in situ surveys, monitoring measurements analysis and numerical modelling on tunnels with ageing problems and/or collapses, settling and subsiding in chalk pit, instability of slope dumps, interaction between cutting-tools of a TBM and the rock-mass2003: Graduate at the Politecnico di Torino in Geotechnical Engineering with a Master Thesis about «Stability controls and refurbishment operations on a damaged railway tunnel» Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Erika Paltrinieri Courses Rock mechanics CIVIL-308 The students understand the mechanical behaviour of rock materials, joints and rock masses, and are able to determine the factors conditioning civil engineering applications. They are able to use appropriate methods for carrying out analysis and design of tunnel excavation and support. Underground construction CIVIL-404 This course is addressed to students who want to deepen their knowledge of underground space and works, including planning, design and management, construction techniques and methods, risk assessment and environmental considerations.