Research

SLOPE MASS-WASTING AND SOIL EROSION - IMPACTS OF FUTURE CHANGES

2025-2028 National Research Project "MUlti-Scale SEDiment production in mountain areas." (MUSSED)
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.

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

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)

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 (collaboration with 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)

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

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