Quoc-Anh's research blog

Welcome to my research blog!

I write this blog to retain my personal, pleasant research experience as well as share my research results and codes.



April to July 2024 Kiel, Germany.

I was awarded the Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant to visit GEOMAR, where I focused on seabed geophysical interpretation, specifically 3D seismic and bathymetric data. I integrated these findings with geotechnical data to investigate seabed landslides.



17-27 March 2024 Davos, Switzerland.

I visited the WSL research institute to collaborate with researchers about the snow avalanches. I also gave a talk during the IGT-Kolloquium at ETH Zurich about submarine landslides. 

What I like the most is the chance to go for a ski in Davos.



12-17 March 2024 Milan, Italy.

I came to Milan, Italy to join the MCAA Annual Conference and General Assembly organized by Marie Curie Alumni Association. It is a good chance to meet Norwegian chapters.



1-10 December 2023 Hongkong.

I joined the NTNU team to visit the University of Hong Kong (Prof. Clarence Choi). We visited different experiment facilities and centrifuge models. I also have a chance to interact with researchers at HKUST and enjoy a lovely week exploring Hong Kong. MingHe, a PhD student from Clarence group will visit NTNU next year.


13-18 November 2023 Florence, Italy.

I and Erik have participated in the landslide Forum in Florence and have had chances to meet our collaborators on landslide topic here.


25-29 June 2023 and 8-15 September,  London, UK.

I have participated in the Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering 2023 and the 9th International SUT OSIG Conference, both conferences at Imperial College in London.

Here is the record of my presentation.


19-23 June 2023,  Bergen, Norway.

I have opportunities to discuss with mathematicians my research topic presentation at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences in Bergen.



7-10 June 2023,  Oslo, Norway.

My presentation at the conference is "Advanced numerical model for landslides: from quick clay to submarine landslides" in the JTC1 Workshop on Impact of global changes on landslide hazard and risk.


3-7 June 2023,  Chania, Greece

I came to Chania to present my research "A hybrid MPM-CFD model for simulating multiphase flow in deformable porous media" in the annual COUPLED conference.


21-27 May 2023,  Edinburgh, UK

15th Annual International Conference on Porous Media

23-30 April 2023,  Vienna, Austria

I came to Cambridge to participate in the European Geoscience Assembly Conference. I had a presentation on earthquake-induced submarine landslides.

Attached picture is my presentation

15-20 March 2023,  Cordoba, Spain

I came to Lisbon, Portugal to join the MCAA Annual Conference and General Assembly organized by Marie Curie Alumni Association. It is a good chance to have training on writing ERC proposals.

1-15 October 2022,  Kanagawa, Japan

I visited the Port and Airport Research Institute in collaboration with Dr. Shiji Sassa on earthquake-induced submarine landslides. This partnership combined experimental expertise (geotechnical centrifuge testing) from Japan and computational analysis from Norway, with a shared goal of advancing our understanding of submarine landslide mechanisms.

19-23 September 2022,  Daejeon, Korea

I attained the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure and present our recent research on Rheological parameters for submarine landslide materials.

05-08 July 2022,  Athens, Grecce

First time in Greece and it was amazing. I attained the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure and present my recent research on coupled CFD-MPM for soil-water-structure interaction.

12-15 June 2022,  Quebec, Canada

I planed to join the the 8th Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards in June but unfortunately I cannot get the visa on time so I attained online and present on the 3D modeling of Gjerdrum landslide.

05-09 June 2022,  Oslo, Norway

I came to Oslo to participate in the 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. It is nice to meet some friends at the conference. I made a presentation on the coupled CFD-MPM in the modeling of submarine landslides.

25-28 March 2022,  Lisbon, Portugal

I came to Lisbon, Portugal to join the MCAA Annual Conference and General Assembly organized by Marie Curie Alumni Association. It is a good chance to have training on writing ERC proposals.

01-04 December 2021,  Madrid, Spain

I came to Madrid in Spain for the Next Generation of Researchers to study the topics of physical modeling in geotechnical engineering. The visit is funded by European Union through the GEOLAB project 'Innovative solutions for critical infrastructure'. I have a chance to meet my collaborators from UPC Barcelona. It is nice to see the railway track experiment in CEDEX and discuss it with many other researchers.

04-06 October 2021,  Hamburg, Germany

I came to Germany again for Particle 2021 to present my research on coupled MPM - CFD in the modeling of submarine debris flow. Hamburg is a big city and I have a lot of fun here.

February 2021

I am happy to announce that I succeed to win the prestigious grant from the European Commission (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship) with a score of 94,6/100. In brief, the project is to develop a coupled (soil mechanics - fluid mechanics - solid mechanics) computational model being able to simulate the entire process of a submarine slide event (earthquake-induced slide and landslide-induced tsunami) and interactions with offshore structures. I am excited to start this project and update in detail soon!

August 2020

I am excited to move to Trondheim, Norway to start my Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I was actually appointed directly to work on the MPM modelling of submarine landslides. We are going to submit a proposal (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship) in September on the proposed topic. I am also looking forward to collaborating with experts here.

May 2020

My paper "Temporal and null‐space filter for the material point method" was recognized as one of the most read and top downloads in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering in 2018-2019 even though we published the paper at the late of 2019 (November).


5 January 2020

I travel to Vietnam and luckily I met Daniel Dias and his family during his vacation here. Daniel is always funny and supportive and I was so lucky to have him as my supervisor during my study in Grenoble Alpes University. I also have a chance to meet other researchers through his network.

29 November 2019

I successfully defend my dissertation "Material Point Method: algorithmic development and applications to landslide modeling". The opponent is Prof. Michele Hicks from Delft University of Technology. The PhD degree is just a beginning!

9-23 June 2019

I visited to Gdansk University of Technology for the collaboration with Jakub on implementing the non-local micro-polar hypoplasticity model on the Material Point Method. It is nice to meet Jakub again since he was in Aalto last February. Gdansk polytechnique is my favourite university with their unique architecture.

21-25 May 2019

I visited to Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for  the future collaboration on the topic of the Material Point Method with Prof. Gustav Grimstad. The visit results in a research proposal on the Material Point Method for the landslide modelling. This is not my first time in Trondheim and this time, I have opportunities to meet faculties and Prof. Ariane Locat to discuss on the sensitive clay landslides, my favorite topic.

11 February 2019

we had a visiting PhD student from Gdansk university of technology for a month. Jakub (on the left) worked on the implementation of the non-local micro-polar hypoplasticity on MPM. He is a good friend and he leaves Aalto today and hopefully I will see him soon this summer in Gdansk!

February 2019

2 good news! My 2 papers have been published. 

1 paper in Computers and Geotechnics (paper), co-author with my PhD advisor Wojciech Solowski,

and 1 paper in International Journal in Geomechanics (paper) as a cooperation with Prof. Pascal Villard and Prof. Daniel Dias in 3SR Grenoble.

8 – 10 January 2019, University of Cambridge, UK

I came to Cambridge to participate in the 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method. I had a presentation on least square for MPM (paper) coauthored with Prof. Martin in University of Utah.

Attached picture is my presentation.

Sep-Oct 2018, University of Utah, USA

I have visited Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah for 2 months to cooperate with Prof. Martin Berzins in MPM algorithm development and Uintah software implementation. This is my first time in USA and it was so nice to meet new people, travel in USA, enjoy the nature and culture here.

I took this picture in Capitol hill, Salt Lake city, Utah.

Feb-Mar 2018, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

I visited Department of Applied Mathematics to work with Lisa Wobbes in improving the accuracy for the Material Point Method. It was the third time I came here and I learnt a lot from people in TU Delft.

19-23 Oct 2017, Wuhan, China

I came to Wuhan, China to participate in the International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. I had a presentation in the conference (paper) about MPM modelling of the large strain consolidation. I and my colleagues also visited the Yellow Crane Tower (see my taken photo) and other tourist places in Wuhan. It was such a nice experience.

26-28 September 2017,  Hannover, Germany

I came to Hannover for Particle 2017 to present my research on null space filter in MPM (paper). MPM was a small session of a big conference but it nice to see other works related to MPM. I also met Lisa from TU Delft and we decided to start to cooperate as we had a same interest in MPM.

11-15 June 2017,  Trondheim, Norway

We cooperated with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and present our research on the sensitive clay modelling (paper) in the International Workshop on Landslides in Sensitive Clays. Trondheim is a very beautiful city and we had a chance to visit the Nidaros cathedral, dined at Ringve museum (very nice panorama view) and visited several landslide area in Norway.

10-13 January 2017, Delft, Netherlands

This is my first conference in my PhD journey, the 1st International Conference on Material Point Method. I had a presentation (paper) and met other senior MPM researcher and the Sulsky's presentation was very inspiring.