Jean SULEM is Professor at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, and Research Director. He is leading the Geotechnical Group CERMES at Laboratoire Navier.
His research interests are related to Bifurcation Theory applied to stability and strain localisation analyses, Constitutive Modelling of geomaterials, Experimental Rock Mechanics, Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Geomaterials with applications to Tunnelling, Petroleum Engineering, Deep Geological Storage, Fault Mechanics.
He is the President of the Comité Français de Mécanique des roches (French Group of the International Society of Rock Mechanics) and Associate Editor for the journal Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.