Research

SLOPE MASS-WASTING UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE


  • 2022-2024 National Research Project "Sediment budget in mountainous watersheds." (SED4BUD)
  • 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" (DEBRISTART) (web)
  • 2002-2005  National Research Project CLIMLAD:  Reconstruction of past landslide activity and its relationship with climate.

DEBRIS FLOWS - DEBRIS FLOODS


  • Chairman of the International Organization Committee for the DFHM Series
  • 2016- present National Research Projects on slope mass-wasting (see previous section)
  • 2013 - 2014  Research stay at WSL working on hillslope debris flows.
  • 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)
  • 2009-2011   National Research Project on Debris-flow hazard assessment at catchment scale DEBRISCATCH (web)
  • 2003   Numerical simulation and laboratory flume tests (in collaboration with GITS)
  • 2002-2006  Hazard assessment of debris flows in the Principality of Andorra
  • 2000   Research stay at WSL (debris flow observation stations in Switzerland and numerical simulations)
  • 1994  Potential starting zones of debris flows in the periglacial of the Oberengadine (Swiss Alps), D.Sc. thesis at the ETH Zurich

MULTI-HAZARD RISK ASSESSMENT

  • 2022-2027 Horizon Europe Project "The HuT (Human-Tech nexus): building a safe haven for coping with climate extremes (The-HuT)." (web)
  • 2022-2027 Horizon Europe Project "Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co‐developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters (PARATUS)" (web)

VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES GEOTECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF VOLCANIC MATERIALS


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