Multiphysical phenomena: soil freezing, cement hydration, gas hydrate dissociation, carbon sequestration, shale gas recovery, processes in geothermal practice
Development and application of innovative sensor techniques
Innovative characterization (acoustic, electromagnetic) and advanced mechanics of porous materials (unsaturated soil mechanics, poromechanics)
Climatic effects on infrastructure
Numerical simulation techniques: Multiphysics and Multiscale, XFEM, SPH