Michel Virlogeux

Michel Virlogeux, born in 1946 in Vichy, is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1967 and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in 1970, then worked on road projects in Tunisia before joining the bridge department of SETRA, the technical service of the French highway administration, in 1974. Over about twenty years he designed more than a hundred bridges there, among them the Normandy Bridge, which held the record for the longest cable-stayed bridge for four years. After 1995 he worked as an independent consulting engineer, taking part in the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon and the design of the Millau Viaduct. He has also taught structural analysis since 1977 and received the inaugural IABSE Prize in 1983 and the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2005.