Qinghua Lei

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Geohydrology at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Hydrology

Fax:: +46 18 471 22 31
E-mail:: qinghua.lei@geo.uu.se
Visiting address:: Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala
Postal address:: Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA

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ORCID:: 0000-0002-3990-4707

Short presentation

I am a geophysical scientist and a geotechnical engineer. I develop theoretical and numerical models to understand and predict various rupture phenomena in geological systems, such as landslides, earthquakes, rockbursts, volcanic eruptions, and glacier breakoffs. I am also interested in how geomaterials interact with man-made structures (like tunnels and caverns) and develop innovative solutions to address relevant geological/geotechnical engineering problems.

Keywords

rock mechanics
geophysics
coupled processes
geotechnical engineering

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in Geohydrology with Specialisation in Coupled Processes at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. I have been the PI on ~2.7M Euro funding and a Co-PI of ~1.8M Euro funding. I am a Fellow of Young Academy of Europe, which is a pan-European initiative of young scientists for networking, scientific exchange, and science policy. I am the receipient of the 2024 Chin-Fu Tsang Coupled Processes Award and the 2019 Rocha Medal from the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, the 2025 Early Career Award, the 2016 NGW Cook PhD Dissertation Award, and the 2015 Rock Mechanics Research Award from the American Rock Mechanics Association, the 2020 Scott Sloan Best Paper Award from Computers and Geotechnics, and the 2016 Top Cited Paper Award from Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. I received my Bachelor degree (2009) in Civil Engineering and Master degree (2012) in Geotechnical Engineering (specialised in Tunnel and Underground Engineering), both from Tongji University, China. I obtained my PhD degree (2016) in Rock Mechanics from Imperial College London, UK. I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Fluid Mechanics at Imperial College London, UK between 2016 and 2018. From 2018 to 2023, I was a Lecturer & Senior Researcher in Engineering Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich.