It's fantastic to host Professor Simon Norris from the UK Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to deliver a guest lecture for my Geotechnics 1 class. We also had a lovely catch-up with Simon after the lecture. May 2025
Host Project Partner and RMGE Research Team Meeting_Feb 2026
Left to right: Yihan Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Qingchuan He, Umer Waqas, Giacomo Medici - project parters from Sapienza Roma, Yuxin Li, Junlong Shang, Lie Kong, Fanlin Ling
Guest Lecture from Prof Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services_May 2026
Many thanks to Simon Norris from Nuclear Waste Services for delivering an excellent guest lecture on UK geological disposal and the geotechnical challenges involved in long-term underground waste management.
Right photo: Junlong Shang, Umer Waqas, Simon Norris (left to right)
INFORM Workshop at the University of Manchester_June 2026
We had a wonderful workshop which formed part of our EPSRC-funded INFORM project (led by Dr Junlong Shang), aiming to advance understanding of fracture heterogeneity and support safer, evidence-informed decision-making for geological disposal and wider subsurface engineering.
People in left photo
First row left to right: Yuxin Li, Umer Waqas, Owen Stevens, Adriana Paluszny Rodriguez, Milos Cucakovic, Nick Smith, and Lin Ma
Second row left to right: Mojgan Hadi mosleh, James Woodman, John Bedford, Simon Norris, Majid Sedighi, Jingyue Hao, Kath Morris, and Junlong Shang
Third row left to right: Tom Berry, Xiaomin Xu, Vasileios Tsitsopoulos, Lie Kong, Fanlin Ling (not in photo), and Zhaoyang Zhang (not in photo).
Our PhD researcher Fanlin Ling delivered an oral presentation on the 60th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium of the American Rock Mechanics Association in Tucson, Arizona