Research
SLOPE MASS-WASTING UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
- 2020-2023 National Research Project "Multiscale analysis of soil erosion in steep slopes." (EROSLOP) (web)
- 2016-2019 National Research Project "Slope mass-wasting under climate change." (SMuCPhy) (web)
- 2011-2014 National Research Project "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
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1996-1999 Geotechnical analysis of large volcanic landslides. The La Orotava events on Tenerife, Canary Islands. my Ph.D. thesis at the UPC, Barcelona
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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