Research interests
- Use of microbially mediated mineral precipitation for ground improvement and ground sealing
- Development and application of colloidal silica-based grouts for ground improvement and ground sealing
- Development of detectable cementitious grouts for reliable barrier formation
- Fluid flow in geological faults, estimating fault permeability (particular relevance to radioactive waste disposal, CO2 sequestration and oil and gas exploitation)
- The relationaship between fault permeability and seismicity - temporal and spatial evolution
- Predicting ground permeability through structural geology and rock mechanics
- Groundwater flow and contaminant transport
- Rock mechanics and structural geology
- Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
- Computer modelling
Professional activities
- Inhibiting airborne and groundwater-borne transport of radionuclides during decommissioning operations with colloidal silica grout
- Speaker
- 27/11/2022
- Development and application of colloidal silica based grouts for waste containment
- Speaker
- 6/12/2021
- Calcite Biomineralisation for the Repair of Damaged Concrete
- Contributor
- 20/9/2021
- DETECTAGROUT: Field validation of a dectectable, cementitious grout for rock fracture grouting
- Speaker
- 2021
- Bone Dry: Hydroxyapatite as a water-resistant cement coating material
- Contributor
- 6/5/2019
- Field deployment of biomineral technologies for treatment and repair of concrete nuclear infrastructure
- Contributor
- 3/4/2019
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Projects
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2022 | Mutahi, Nicholas Silvester
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) Pytharouli, Stella (Co-investigator) Mutahi, Nicholas Silvester (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- IGNITE Network+: Innovation and Growth Needs Inclusion and engagement of all Talent in Energy research
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator)
- 12-Jan-2022 - 11-Jan-2026
- Poccitone: Port and Coastal Cities and Towns Network
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2024
- RWM ICase contribution. Analysis of microseismic data to inform the siting, construction and operation of a geological disposal facility in the UK | Ho, Z. Tim Wing
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) Pytharouli, Stella (Co-investigator) Ho, Z. Tim Wing (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- RWM ICase contribution. Analysis of microseismic data to inform the siting, construction and operation of a geological disposal facility in the UK
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) Pytharouli, Stella (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- LGBT STEMinar 2022
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator)
- Conference
- 25-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
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