Professor Loretta Batali
Loretta Batali is full professor and habilitated for PhD research at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania (UTCB), Department of Geotechnics and Foundations and Director of the Council For Doctoral Studies. She graduated the Hydraulic Works Faculty of UTCB, then she obtained a Master and a PhD degree, both from INSA Lyon France (with a PhD thesis on the Use of geosynthetic clay liners for landfills).
Topics of interest: Ground properties, Landfills, Geosynthetics, Retaining structures, Ground improvement, Unsaturated soils, Slope stability, Eurocodes
After many years dealing with geosynthetics and landfills, her more recent preoccupations turned around ground improvement with lime-based binders, piles subjected to transversal loads, rigid inclusions, hydro-geological aspects or risk mapping of landslides.
She was involved in the revision of the Eurocode 7 at CEN (TC 250/SC7), as member of PT1 and leading TG B on design examples. Starting from 1.01.2025 Prof. Batali acts as vice chair of SC7.
Since 2021 Loretta Batali is the President of the Romanian Society for Soil mechanics and Foundation Engineering (SRGF), after being vice-president of it for 9 years. At ISSMGE she served as chair of the Awards Board Level Committee (AWAC) (2022 2026).
She is appointed as technical expert and verifier for Geotechnics and Foundation domain (Af) by the Public Works Ministry in Romania, as well as national and international evaluator for research projects and for quality assurance of engineering schools in Romania and France. She has a rich technical activity for geotechnical investigations, geotechnical design and consultancy, verification and forensic, being also author of numerous technical norms and standards and member of various state comissions She is also member of various national technical committees in Romania for the Public Works Ministry.
She is also member of the Romanian Association for Geosynthetics (ARG), after serving for 10 years as scientific secretary and also member of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) and of the CEN TC 189 Geosynthetics.
