Current Active Grants

• 2024 - 2028 (Project coordinator, PI), "UPGRADE".
• 2024 - 2028 (Project coordinator, PI), "POSEIDON".
• 2023 - 2025 (PI), "Multiphysics modelling of soil-energy geostructure interaction".
• 2023 - 2025 (PI), "Climate Adaptive Railway Earthworks (CARE)".
• 2023 - 2025 (Project coordinator, PI) for H2020 MSCA "BALANCE".
• 2023 - 2025 (Project coordinator, PI) for H2020 MSCA " ETERNAL".
• 2021 - 2024 (Project coordinator, PI) for H2020 MSCA "DIGI-BIO-RAIL".
• 2018 - 2023 (Project coordinator, PI) H2020 MSCA RISE "HERCULES'.

Past Grants

• 2020 May - November (Co-I, Project with Hughes Darren) "Coventry Very Light Rail - Track".
• 2019 - 2022 (Project coordinator, PI) for H2020 MSCA 'CLEAN'.
• 2014 - 2022 (Co-I), Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress (EPSRC, EP/L016400/1).

• 2015 April - 2019 March (Warwick PI, Project Co-I): Local Scientist in Charge at the University of Warwick for H2020 MSCA RISE, "GEO-RAMP".

• 2016-2018 (PI) Royal Society.
• 2017.06 - 2017.09 (Engineering PI) "Feasibility study for very light weight tram - Track system".
• 2016-2017 (PI) "Geosynthetic-Reinforcement in long-term slope deformation".
• 2015- 2017 (PI) "Soil crack propagation in clays under dynamic loads".
• 2015-2017 (PI) “Bearing capacity degradation and deformation of a single pile multi-directional cyclic lateral load”.
• 2012 - 2012 (Chief Investigator), Australian Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Scheme.

• CARE project workshop
• FICE
• CVLR project entered the Finalists for the 2021 The Engineer Collaborate to Innovate Award

• British Science Festival

"We are working on new ways to protect global towns and cities in the face of climate changes." - Dr Xueyu Geng

• The University of Warwick - Zhejiang University of Technology Geotechnical Engineering Joint Research Centre

• West Midlands on track to lead rail innovation. LinkLink opens in a new window
• Very light rail plans for Coventry move forward. Link

• Canadian Geotechnical Society honour. Link

 

The recognition was for their paper: “The effectiveness of partially penetrating vertical drains under a combined surcharge and vacuum preloading”, Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 2011, 48: 970-983.

• Excellence in Research Awards, 2013, the University of Wollongong, Australia.