Intelligent infrastructure systems enabled by computing (AI, hybrid computing), sensing
(acoustic, electromagnetic), and control (distributed systems with microcontrollers)
for smart cities and safer, more (energy) efficient, and more resilient built environments
Enhancing system resilience with artificial intelligence (deep and reinforcement learning),
physics (multiphysics and inverse analysis), and advanced data analytics (with transportation,
meteorological, and GIS data)
Multiphysics and applications: thermohydromechanics (seasonal and climatic effects,
material/environment processes, energy from gas hydrates), buoyance-driven flow (surface
water geothermal), electromagnetics (sensing and sensors, energy harvesting), and
soil-structure-fluid interaction (erosion and infrastructure protection)
Advanced soil mechanics and numerical simulation techniques: stress formulation, soil
wetting, adsorption, non-isothermal soil mechanics, phase change, and soil behavior
under extreme conditions; FEM, FDM, FVM, XFEM, molecular dynamics, SPH, Monte Carlo,
and self-made methods.
Monitoring of volcanic degassing: acquisition and analysis of volcanic gas emission
data, specifically sulfur dioxide, using Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
and COSPEC
Depletion rates of sulfur dioxide in volcanic plumes
Near-vent sun photometry of volcanic aerosols (using sun photometers)
Volcano-atmosphere interactions
Volcanology and volcanic hazard assessment in the Lesser Antilles, Central and South
America
Monitoring of ground deformation produced by volcanic activity, using the Global Positioning
System
