Affiliation: Uppsala University
Keywords: Geohazards, rock mechanics, nuclear waste disposal, underground energy storage, geothermal energy, geotechnical engineering
Full profile: Short description: Qinghua Lei is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden. He obtained his bachelor’s degree (2009) in Civil Engineering and master’s degree (2012) in Geotechnical Engineering from Tongji University, China, and his PhD (2016) in Rock Mechanics from Imperial College London, UK. He once worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Fluid Mechanics at Imperial College London between 2016 and 2018, and as a Senior Researcher & Lecturer in Engineering Geology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland between 2018 and 2023. Dr Lei is the recipient of the 2024 Chin-Fu Tsang Coupled Processes Award and the 2019 Manuel Rocha Medal from the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering as well as the 2016 NGW Cook PhD Dissertation Award and 2015 Rock Mechanics Research Award from the American Rock Mechanics Association. His research interests include geohazards (landslides, rockbursts, earthquakes, glacier breakoffs, and volcanic eruptions), rock mechanics, multiphysics modelling, underground excavation, nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, and underground energy storage.