刘奎，男，山东青岛人，中共党员，工学博士，山东省海外科技人才（C类）。2019年博士毕业于英国南安普顿大学岩土工程专业，获由英国皇家工程院，南安普顿大学，以及英国工程和自然科学研究委员会联合赞助的全额奖学金；博士毕业后受邀回到卡迪夫大学、环境岩土研究中心从事研究工作，后又到法国核能安全与辐射防护研究所从事博士后工作；曾先后与英国皇家工程院院士William Powrie教授，以及中国科学院外籍院士与英国皇家工程院院士Hywel Thomas教授共事。主要从事土力学、非饱和土的多场耦合等方面的教学科研工作；以第一作者身份（及通讯）在《Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment》，《Transportation Geotechnics》等期刊发表多篇高水平论文。
主要研究方向：
1.非饱和土中的多场耦合现象分析(例如thermal-hydraulic、hydro-mechanical coupling)
2.X射线CT断层成像(X-ray Computed Tomography)在孔隙介质中的应用：
纳微米级别的表征特性分析
4D动态现象的追踪
3.地下能源的优化利用、防灾减灾（例如：地下热储能系统，地下埋藏电缆的优化，地下核废弃填埋，隔离桩在隧道中的保护等）
工作经历：
2023.07 –至今：英国威廉希尔公司，威廉希尔，讲师
2021.03 – 2022.08：法国核能安全与辐射防护研究所Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire，博士后
2020.04 – 2021.01：英国卡迪夫大学、环境岩土研究中心Cardiff University, Geoenvironmental Research Centre，博士后
教育背景：
2014.09 – 2019.09：英国南安普顿大学，岩土工程，工程博士EngD
2013.09 – 2014.09：英国卡迪夫大学，土木工程，理学硕士MSc（一等学位）
2009.09 – 2013.06：石家庄铁道大学（詹天佑班），土木工程，工学学士BEng
科研项目：
1. 2022.05 – 2022.10欧盟合作项目EXCITE Network (HORIZON 2020) “Direct observation of desaturation in Boom clay”主持
2. 2022.03 – 2022.07法国国家同步加速器实验中心(French national synchrotron facility - Synchrotron SOLEIL)项目“A synchrotron-based X-ray insight into unsaturated microfabric of clay materials”主持
3. 2021.03 – 2022.08：欧盟HORIZON 2020子项目：EURAD (European Joint Program on Radioactive Waste Management) “Gas migration in natural and swelling clays – small scale experiments and image analysis”主研
4. 2020.04 – 2021.01英国国家电网(National Grid Electricity Transmission)与卡迪夫大学环境岩土研究中心(Cardiff University, GRC)合作项目“Retrospective health assessment of underground transmission circuits (NGET)”主研
5. 2015.9 – 2019.9英国皇家工程院(Royal Academy of Engineering)与英国南安普顿大学(University of Southampton)合作项目“X-ray computed tomography to quantify the moisture movement in soils under thermal gradient”主研
代表性学术论文：
1. Kui Liu*, Fleur Loveridge, Richard Boardman, William Powrie. 2022. Effect of Soil Saturation and Grain Size on Coupled Hydrothermal Flow in Fine Soils Based on X-ray μCT Imaging. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. 32: 100380.
2.Kui Liu, Xiaobing Xu*, Qi Hu, Libin Zeng, Jinchang Wang. 2022.1g Model Test on the Use of Isolation Piles for Tunnel Protection Adjacent to Soft-soil Excavation.Transportation Geotechnics. 35:100790.
3.Kui Liu*, Renato Zagorscak, Richard J. Sandford, Oliver N. Cwikowski, Alexander Yanushkevich, Hywel R. Thomas. 2022. Insights into the Thermal Performance of Underground High Voltage Electricity Transmission Lines through Thermo-hydraulic Modelling. Energies. 15(23), 8897.
4.Kui Liu, Richard Boardman, Mark Mavrogordato, Fleur Loveridge*, William Powrie. 2020.The Importance of the Heel Effect in X-ray Computed Tomography Imaging of Soils.Environmental Geotechnics. 10(2), 134-149.
5.Kui Liu*, Fleur Loveridge, Richard Boardman, William Powrie. 2018. Evaluation of Reconstruction and Segmentation Techniques on High Temporal Resolution Micro-CT scans for Geotechnical Applications. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering.
6.Kui Liu*, Fleur Loveridge, Richard Boardman, William Powrie. 2018. Observation of Thermally Driven Water Flow in Soils via Micro-focus X-ray Computed Tomography. Proceedings of 7thInternational Conference on Unsaturated Soils.
7.Kui Liu*, Fleur Loveridge, Richard Boardman, William Powrie. 2017. Study of Short-term Evaporation in Sand Specimens via Micro-focus X-ray Computed Tomography. Proceedings of 2ndInternational Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics.
学术会议：
1.International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics - SEG-2018口头汇报
2.7thInternational Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2018)口头报告及海报
3.2ndInternational Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (CPEG2)口头报告
4.8thInternational Conference on Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement口头报告
联系方式：18954209576;kui.liu@sdust.edu.cn
