刘奎，男，山东青岛人，中共党员，工学博士（后）；山东省“海外优青”，山东省海外科技人才。2019年博士毕业于英国南安普顿大学（Top 100，师从英国皇家工程院院士/我校兼职教授William Powrie教授），岩土工程专业，获英国皇家工程院-南安普顿大学-EPSRC联合奖学金（全奖）；毕业后到英国卡迪夫大学环境岩土研究中心（师从英国皇家工程院和皇家协会两院院士、中国科学院外籍院士Hywel Thomas教授），法国核能安全与辐射防护研究所从事科研工作。主要从事环境岩土与能源土工领域的教学与科研工作，致力于解决相关领域的理论与应用问题。近年来承担包括欧盟地平线联合基金/子课题、法国国家实验室开放基金、山东省优秀青年科学基金（海外）、山东省自然科学基金青年项目等7项课题；以第一/通讯作者等在《Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering》《Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment》《Transportation Geotechnics》《ICE -Environmental Geotechnics》等期刊发表SCI/EI论文11篇，担任《Proceedings of the ICE - Waste and Resource Management》等期刊审稿人。
主讲课程：
《地基处理》《专业英语》
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：
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，隔离桩在隧道的应用等）
4.海洋岩土工程(soil-fluid-structure interaction)
科研项目：
2025 – 2027山东省优秀青年科学基金项目（海外）主持
2025 – 2027山东省自然科学基金（青年项目）主持
2022.05 – 2022.10欧盟地平线联合基金项目EXCITE Network (HORIZON 2020)“Direct observation of desaturation in Boom clay”主持
2022.03 – 2022.07法国国家同步加速器实验中心开放基金项目(French national synchrotron facility - Synchrotron SOLEIL)“A synchrotron-based X-ray insight into unsaturated microfabric of clay materials”主持
2021.03 – 2022.08：欧盟地平线HORIZON 2020子课题项目：EURAD (European Joint Program on Radioactive Waste Management)“Gas migration in natural and swelling clays – small scale experiments and image analysis”主研
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
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：
Kui Liu, Magdalena Dymitrowska, Nadia Mokni, Mario Scheel, Timm Weitkamp, Mohammed Zaid. 2025. Synchrotron Imaging of Toarcian Argillite: Pore Characteristics and Drying Behaviour for Radioactive Waste Disposal Application. ICE -Environmental Geotechnics.
Kui Liu, Jing Hu, Quanchang Zhang, Chaofeng Zeng.2025. Dynamic Microstructural Changes in Bentonite during Hydration: A Micro-CT Investigation. Water.
Mohammed Zaidi, Nadia Mokni, Magdalena Dymitrowska,Kui Liu. 2024. Analyzing Structural Changes induced by Gas Migration in Heterogeneous Pellet/Powder Bentonite Mixtures Through X-ray Computed Micro-Tomography. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
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.
Kui Liu, Xiaobing Xu, Qi Hu, Libin Zeng, Jinchang Wang. 2022. 1gModel Test on the Use of Isolation Piles for Tunnel Protection Adjacent to Soft-soil Excavation.Transportation Geotechnics.
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.
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.ICE - Environmental Geotechnics.
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.
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.
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.
联系方式：kui.liu@sdust.edu.cn
