lsalo@mit.edu

Lluís Saló-Salgado
  • 2023 Alum (PhD)
  • PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, 2023
  • MS, Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), 2016
  • BS, Geology, University of Barcelona (UB), 2014
Biographical Overview
Dr. Saló-Salgado recently completed his PhD working with Prof. Juanes in ERL/Civil & Environmental Engineering, and he is now a postdoc at Harvard. "I am a geoscientist working at the intersection of geology, flow in porous media, geomechanics and seismology to address pressing questions related to geoenergy and the environment. I approach these questions primarily through a combination of computational tools (physics-based simulation, statistical modeling, data analysis) with the goal of quantifying answers and their uncertainty. My work focuses on geologic CO2 storage. Specifically, I am targeting the following two areas: (1) Development of new computer models to characterize the hydraulic properties of faults. (2) Numerical modeling of CO2 storage, with emphasis on fault zones and their impact on fluid migration. Before starting my PhD, I worked with seismic signals generated by earthquakes and other processes."
2023
J. A. Silva, Saló-Salgado, L. , Patterson, J. , Dasari, G. R. , and Juanes, R. , “Assessing the viability of CO2 storage in offshore formations of the Gulf of Mexico at a scale relevant for climate-change mitigation”, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, vol. 126, p. 103884, 2023.
L. Saló-Salgado, Haugen, M. , Eikehaug, K. , Fernø, M. , Nordbotten, J. M. , and Juanes, R. , “Direct comparison of numerical simulations and experiments of CO2 injection and migration in geologic media: Value of local data and predictability”. 2023.
M. Haugen, Saló-Salgado, L. , Eikehaug, K. , Benali, B. , Both, J. W. , Storvik, E. , Folkvord, O. , Juanes, R. , Nordbotten, J. Martin, and Ferno, M. A. , “Physical variability in meter-scale laboratory CO2 injections in faulted geometries”. 2023.
2022
L. Saló-Salgado, Davis, S. , and Juanes, R. , “Anisotropic fault permeability upscaling and modeling of fault CO2 migration scenarios during geologic carbon sequestration”, EGU General Assembly 2022. 2022.
L. Saló-Salgado, “Managing CO2 Fault Migration Hazard for Safe, Large-Scale Geologic Carbon Storage”. 2022.
J. A. Gili, Ruiz-Carulla, R. , Matas, G. , Moya, J. , Prades, A. , Corominas, J. , Lantada, N. , Núñez-Andrés, M. A. , Buill, F. , Puig, C. , Martínez-Bofill, J. , Saló-Salgado, L. , and Mavrouli, O. , “Rockfalls: analysis of the block fragmentation through field experiments”, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1009 - 1029, 2022.
2021
L. Saló-Salgado, Davis, S. , and Juanes, R. , “Fault Permeability from Physics-based, Stochastic Modeling of Clay Smears”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. 2021.
L. Saló-Salgado, Acocella, A. , Garcia, I. Arzuaga, Mousadik, S. El, and Zvinavashe, A. , “Managing up: how to communicate effectively with your PhD adviser”, Nature, 2021.
2020
L. Saló-Salgado, Silva, J. A. , Davis, J. S. , and Juanes, R. , “Assessing the Potential for CO2 Migration along Fault Zones during Geologic Carbon Storage in Offshore-Texas Sedimentary Formations”, presented at the 2020/12/1, 2020.
R. Juanes, Silva, J. A. , Saló-Salgado, L. , Davis, J. S. , and Patterson, J. E. , “Large-scale CO2 Storage in Offshore Sedimentary Formations: 3D Flow-Geomechanics Modeling Assessments of Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs”, presented at the 2020/12/1, 2020.
2019
L. Saló-Salgado, Davis, J. Steven, and Juanes, R. , “Assessing the Potential for CO2 Migration along Fault Zones during Geologic Carbon Storage: A Computational Model of Offshore-Texas Sedimentary Formations”, AGU Fall Meeting. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 2019.
2018
L. Saló-Salgado and Juanes, R. , “Assessing Fault Leakage Potential during Underground CO2 Storage in the Gulf of Mexico”, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, DC, 2018.
L. Saló-Salgado, Corominas, J. , Lantada, N. , Matas, G. , Prades, A. , and Ruiz-Carulla, R. , “Seismic energy analysis as generated by impact and fragmentation of single-block experimental rockfalls”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2018.
2017
L. Saló-Salgado, Frontera, T. , Goula, X. , Pujades, L. G. , and Ledesma, A. , “Earthquake static stress transfer in the 2013 Gulf of Valencia (Spain) seismic sequence”, Solid Earth, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 857 - 882, 2017.
J. Corominas, Lantada, N. , Gili, J. , Ruiz-Carulla, R. , Matas, G. , Mavrouli, O. , Núñez-Andrés, M. , Moya, J. , Buill, F. , Abellan, A. , and Saló-Salgado, L. , “The RockRisk project: Rockfall risk quantification and prevention”, in 6Th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Rockfall Protection Rocexs 2017, 2017.