Prof. Ning Lu

Ning Lu is professor of engineering at Colorado School of Mines and the director of the joint CSM/USGS Geotechnical Research Laboratory. He obtained a doctorate degree in engineering science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1991. Prior to joining Colorado School of Mines in 1997, he worked as a scientist at Disposal Safety Inc., and as a hydrologist at the US Geological Survey. He has been working on challenging engineering problems in chemical transport in clayey soil, underground nuclear waste isolation, residential house foundation damage by expansive clays, and, most recently, precipitation-induced shallow landslides. His primary research interests are to seek common threads among soil physical phenomena including fluid flow, chemical flow, heat transfer, stress, and deformation, and to build bridges from atomic-scale potentials to particle-scale forces and engineering-scale stresses in soil. He is the senior author of the text book “Unsaturated Soil Mechanics” published by John Wiley and Sons.