Research projects

Ongoing

• Principal Investigator. Project: Unified framework for modelling progressive to catastrophic failure in fractured media (FORECAST). Funder: European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant; 2M EUR). Duration: 2027-2032.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Towards a next-generation landslide early warning system. Funder: Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (3M SEK). Duration: 2025-2027.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Unravelling the interplay of temperature fluctuation and water leakage in frost damage of shotcrete-lined rock tunnels under freeze-thaw cycles. Funder: Swedish Rock Engineering Research Foundation (3M SEK) and Uppsala University (1.3M SEK). Duration: 2024-2028.

• Principal Investigator. Project: A process-based forecast tool for tunnelling-induced groundwater drainage and land subsidence. Funder: Swedish Transport Administration (5M SEK). Duration: 2024-2028.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Fracture network prediction and rock suitability evaluation for spent nuclear fuel disposal. Funder: Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (5M SEK). Duration: 2023-2027.

• Co-Principal Investigator. Project: System transition to renewable marine fuels in the Nordics – from a supply chain perspective. Funder: Nordic Energy Research (2M SEK). Duration: 2024-2026.

• Co-Principal Investigator & Work Package Leader. Project: Progressive evolution of structurally-controlled overbreaks: Long-term monitoring, hydromechanical simulation and rock testing. Funder: Mont Terri Consortium (532K CHF) and Uppsala University (1.6M SEK). Duration: 2023-2027.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Modelling of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in fractured rock in performance assessment: uncertainty evaluation and sensitivity of conceptual model representation and heterogeneity simplification. Funder: Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (4M SEK) and Uppsala University (0.6M SEK). Duration: 2022-2026.

Completed

• Partner. Project: High-resolution analysis of seismo-thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in fractured rocks during hydraulic stimulation: model development, validation and application. Funder: German Research Foundation (323K EUR). Duration: 2021-2024.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Future evolution of meta-stable rock slopes in hydropower systems of China: Implications for long-term safety. Funders: Swiss National Science Foundation (350K CHF) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (3M RMB). Duration: 2020-2023.

• Co-Principal Investigator & Work Package Leader. Project: Progressive evolution of structurally-controlled overbreaks. Funders: Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (450K CHF). Duration: 2019-2023.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Study on the formation mechanism of excavation damaged zones during the construction of the Underground Research Laboratory in Beishan, China. Funder: Chinese Academy of Sciences (80K RMB). Duration: 2020-2021.

• Principal Investigator. Project: Mechanisms of fault slip and casing failure during hydraulic fracturing in shale formations. Funder: Sinopec (220K RMB). Duration: 2019-2021.

• Researcher & Science Coordinator. Project: Smart-GeoWells –– Smart technologies for optimal drilling, completion, design, and management of geothermal wells. Funders: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (500K GBP) and Ministry of Science & Technology of China (5M RMB). Duration: 2017-2018.

• Researcher. Project: Development and application of novel approaches to modelling coupled near- and in-well multiphase flow dynamics. Funder: Statoil (285K GBP). Duration: 2016-2018.

• Researcher. Project: Improved simulation of faulted and fractured reservoirs. itf-ISF Consortium (178K GBP). Duration: 2012-2014.

• Researcher. Project: Development of BLKLAB for modelling three-dimensional discontinuous rock systems. Funder: State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering (12K RMB). Duration: 2009-2012.

• Researcher. Project: Design of a multi-functional apparatus for model tests in geotechnical engineering. Funder: Ministry of Education of China (600K RMB). Duration: 2010-2011.