ZhongSen LI

Assistant Professor

Nantes University | CNRS UMR 6183 | France

✉️ zhongsen.li(at)univ-nantes.fr | 📞 00 33 (0)2 40 17 86 41

2023- Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Sustainable Constuction, Nantes University

2022-2023: Staff Scientist, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University

2016-2022: Post-doc at Sun Yat-sen University, University of Gustave Eiffel, and Aalto University

2010-2015: MSc & PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, École Centrale Paris

Research highlights

My research focuses on the geotechnical aspects of renewable energy infrastructure. I study soil-pile interactions in offshore wind turbines and erosions in earth dams. I employ a combination of elementary laboratory tests, centrifuge modelling & numerical analysis to address the challenges of sustainable energy infrastructure under complex environmental loads. I believe in vision & action.

Project SLOOP: Stochastic Loads on Offshore Piles

Project MUTANC2: Shared anchors and mooring lines for OW farms

Teaching activities

I teach Mathematics, Geotechnical Engineering, Public Works and Electricity at the University Institute of Technology of Saint-Nazaire, Nantes University. I have also taught Soil–Pile Interaction at École Centrale de Nantes, École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne, and University of São Paulo (São Carlos campus). My teaching philosophy emphasises clarity, interactivity and student-centredness.