Joining EPFL in 1994 as a Research Fellow, he became a professor in 2006. In the years 1999-2001 he acted as a president of the EPFL Assembly and a member of the ETH-Rat Board. In 2008 he and was appointed the head of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory (EPFL). In 2012 he was appointed as the director of EPFL Civil Engineering Section and in 2014 became a member of the Direction of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of EPFL.
