SLOPE MASS-WASTING UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE

• 2016-2019 National Research Project "Slope mass-wasting under climate change. Physical mechanisms, predictive modelling and possible mitigation strategies." (SMuCPhy) (web)

• 2011-2014  National Research Project on ANALYSIS OF THE INITIATION MECHANISMS FOR RAINFALL-INDUCED MASS MOVEMENTS IN SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS FOCUSSING ON DEBRIS FLOWS AND SHALLOW SLIDES (DEBRISTART) (web)
• 2002-2005  National Research Project CLIMLAD:  Reconstruction of past landslide activity and its relationship with climate.
• 2001-Monitoring and analysis of Vallcebre landslide

DEBRIS FLOWS - DEBRIS FLOODS

• 1994  Potential starting zones of debris flows in the periglacial of the Oberengadine (Swiss Alps), D.Sc. thesis at the ETH Zurich
• 2000   Research stay at WSL (debris flow observation stations in Switzerland and numerical simulations
•  2001-   Analysis of debris flows in the Spanish Pyrenees
• 2002-2006  Hazard assessment of debris flows in the Principality of Andorra
• 2003   Numerical simulation and laboratory flume tests (in collaboration with GITS)
• 2009-2011   National Research Project on DEBRIS-FLOW HAZARD ASSESSMENT AT CATCHMENT SCALE, DEBRISCATCH (web)
• 2011-2014 - National Research Project on  ANALYSIS OF THE INITIATION MECHANISMS FOR RAINFALL-INDUCED MASS MOVEMENTS IN SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS FOCUSSING ON DEBRIS FLOWS AND SHALLOW SLIDES (DEBRISTART) (web)
• 2013 - 2014 - Research stay at WSL working on hillslope debris flows.

VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES & GEOTECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF VOLCANIC MATERIALS

• 1996-1999  Geotechnical analysis of large volcanic landslides. The La Orotava events on Tenerife, Canary Islands. my Ph.D. thesis at the UPC, Barcelona

• 2002-2004  Risk assessment of volcanic processes on Tenerife:
      PhD-student Ona Cornella (co-supervised by Joan Martí from GVB)

• 2004-2008  Geotechnical analysis of the stability of stratovolcanoes: Teide edifice, Canary Islands:
      PhD-student Rodrigo del Potro (co-supervised by Harry Pinkerton from Lancaster University)

ROCKSLOPE STABILITY (Sagging/Toppling)

• 2001-2003 IMIRILAND: Impact of large landslides in mountain envirnonment (EU-project)
• 2001-2005 Analysis of large-scale "sagging" at Encampadana Peak, Andorra

APPLICATIONS OF GEOMATIC TECHNIQUES

• Application of TLS, UAV and digital photogrammetry to evaluate slope mass-wasting in torrential catchments
• GIS database for landslide events in Catalonia: LLISCAT (web)
• Simple runout models for mass movements in GIS