Service to the community

 

Appointments

  1. Victor Vilarrasa is member of the Young Academy of Europe
  2. Victor Vilarrasa is member of the Global Young Academy
  3. Victor Vilarrasa is member of the Young Academy of Spain
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa is General Secretary of the Commission on ‘Coupled Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Rock’ of the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM)
  5. Víctor Vilarrasa and Francesco Parisio are members of the Commission on 'Coupled Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Rock' of the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM) (www.isrm.net/gca/?id=1345)
  6. GEoREST group is member of CSIC’s PTI TRANSENER+ (link), an Interdisciplinary Thematic Platforms (PTI for its acronym in Spanish) that aims at contributing to the global challenge of the transition of the energy model

 

Editorial services

  1. Victor Vilarrasa is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering for the period 2020-2024
  2. Editor of the special issue “Urban Groundwater” in the Journal Water (Guest editors: Estanislao Pujades, Anna Jurado, Guillaume Attard and Victor Vilarrasa)
  3. Editors of the special issue “Observations of Coupled Process in Fractured Geological Media in various space and time” in the Journal Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (Guest editors: Ki-Bok Min, Jonny Rutqvist and Víctor Vilarrasa)
  4. Editors of the special issue “Geomechanics and fluid flow in geothermal systems” in the Journal Geofluids (Guest editors: Víctor Vilarrasa, Roman Makhnenko and Francesco Parisio)

 

Conference organization

2024

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Organization Committee of the 4th Conference on Coupled processes in Fractured geological media: Observation, modeling, and application (CouFrac), Kyoto, Japan, 13-15 November, 2024
  2. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Prof. Roman Y. Makhnenko and Prof. Tomofumi Koyama, of the session “Coupled Processes in CO2 and H2 Storage: From Lab to Field Scale”, CouFrac2024, Kyoto, Japan, 13-15 November, 2024
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Dr. Alessandro Verdecchia, Dr. Hongyu Yu, Dr. Antonio P. Rinaldi and Dr. Rebecca Harrington, of the session “Induced/triggered seismicity in geo-energy applications: monitoring, modeling, mitigation, and forecasting”, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14-19 April 2024
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Scientific Committee of the 1st Mont Terri Caprock Integrity Symposium and Conference, St-Ursanne, Switzerland, 24-25 January 2024

2023

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Prof. Ingrid Tomac, Prof. Roman Y. Makhnenko and Prof. Keita Yoshioka, of the session “Energy geotechnics: thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical coupled processes in soil and rock”, AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA, 11-15 December 2023
  2. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Organization Committee of the Conference ‘III Symposium of the Young Academy of Spain, Science in the Periphery: from the specific problem to the multidisciplinary solution’, Young Academy of Spain, Madrid, Spain, 27 October 2023
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Dr. Alessandro Verdecchia, Dr. Hongyu Yu, Dr. Antonio P. Rinaldi and Dr. Rebecca Harrington, of the session “Induced/triggered seismicity in geo-energy applications: monitoring, modeling, mitigation, and forecasting”, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23-28 April 2023
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Dr. Silvia De Simone, Dr. Tuanny Cajuhi, Dr. Monia Procesi, Dr. Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi, Dr. Franco Tassi and Dr. Keita Yoshioka, of the session “Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in geological media”, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23-28 April 2023
  5. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Scientific Committee of the 11th Galileo Conference on Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain, 23-26 May 2023

2022

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Prof. Roman Y. Makhnenko, of the session “CO2 storage”, CouFrac2022, Berkeley, CA, USA, 14-16 November, 2022
  2. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Prof. Roman Y. Makhnenko, of the session “Induced Seismicity”, CouFrac2022, Berkeley, CA, USA, 14-16 November, 2022
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Organization Committee of the Conference ‘II Symposium of the Young Academy of Spain: Frontiers’, Young Academy of Spain, Madrid, Spain, 18 October 2022
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Organization Committee of the 3rd Conference on Coupled processes in Fractured geological media: Observation, modeling, and application (CouFrac), Berkeley, California, USA, November 14-16, 2022
  5. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Dr. Antonio P. Rinaldi, Dr. Rebecca Harrington, Nadine Igonin and Dr. Marco Maria Scuderi, of the session “Induced/triggered seismicity in geo-energy applications: monitoring, modeling, mitigation, and forecasting”, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April 2022
  6. Víctor Vilarrasa is convener, together with Dr. Silvia De Simone, Dr. Francesco Parisio, Dr. Roman Y. Makhnenko and Dr. Keita Yoshioka, of the session “Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in geological media”, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April 2022

2021

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa is organizer of the Conference ‘Young Scientists and 2030 Agenda’, Young Academy of Spain, Madrid, Spain, 25-26 November 2021
  2. Organization of the session “Coupled processes in intact and fractured geologic media”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA, USA, 13-17 December 2021 (Conveners:  Dr. Roman Makhnenko, Dr. Francesco Parisio, Dr. Victor Vilarrasa and Dr. Keita Yoshioka)
  3. Organization and chair of the session “Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in geological media”, EGU General Assembly 2020, Vienna, 19-30 April 2021 (virtual conference vEGU21: Gather Online) (Conveners: Dr. Francesco Parisio, Dr. Victor Vilarrasa, Dr. Roman Makhnenko, Dr. Noriaki Watanabe and Dr. Keita Yoshioka)
  4. Organization and chair of the session “Induced/triggered seismicity in geo-energy applications: monitoring, modeling, mitigation, and forecasting”, EGU General Assembly 2021, Vienna, 19-30 April 2021 (virtual conference vEGU21: Gather Online) (Conveners: Dr. Antonio P. Rinaldi, Dr. Léna Cauchie, Dr. Rebecca Harrington, Dr. Marco Maria Scuderi and Dr. Víctor Vilarrasa)

2020

  1. Organization of the session “Non-linear poromechanics in geoenergy applications”, AGU Fall Meeting 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7-11 December 2020 (virtual conference) (Conveners: Dr. Roman Makhnenko, Dr. Francesco Parisio, Dr. Victor Vilarrasa and Dr. Keita Yoshioka)
  2. Liaison and chair of the session “Integrated Rock Physics: Geochemical, Thermal, and Hydromechanical Processes in the Engineered Subsurface”, AGU Fall Meeting 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7-11 December 2020 (virtual conference) (Conveners: Dr. Ingrid Tomac, Dr. Roman Makhnenko and Dr. Alexandru Tatomir; Liaison: Dr. Victor Vilarrasa)
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference Computational Geosciences in the Exascale Era, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Organization Committee of the 2nd Conference on Coupled processes in Fractured geological media: Observation, modeling, and application (CouFrac), Seoul, South Korea, November 11-13, 2020
  5. Organization of the session “Hydraulic, thermal, chemical and mechanical processes in porous and fracture media, with special emphasis on urban groundwater and geothermal energy”, EGU General Assembly 2020, Vienna, 3-8 May 2020. (Conveners: Dr. Estanislao Pujades, Dr. Martin Bloemendal, Dr. Anna Jurado, Dr. Olivier Bour, Dr. Victor Vilarrasa, Dr. Kathrin Menberg and Dr. Guillaume Attard)
  6. Organization of the session “Induced/triggered seismicity in geo-energy applications: monitoring, modeling, mitigation, and forecasting”, EGU General Assembly 2020, Vienna, 3-8 May 2020. (Conveners: Dr. Antonio P. Rinaldi, Dr. Léna Cauchie, Dr. Rebecca Harrington, Dr. Marco Maria Scuderi and Dr. Víctor Vilarrasa) (Call for abstract EGU 2020 – ERE 6.2) (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/session/34729)

2019

  1. Organization of the session "Multiphysics of geosystems: coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in fractured porous media", AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 9-13 December 2019. (Conveners: Dr. Roman Makhnenko, Dr. Victor Vilarrasa, Dr. Keita Yoshioka and Dr. Francesco Parisio)  Call for abstracts AGU2019 - MR022
  2. Organization of the session “Induced/triggered seismicity in geoenergy applications: monitoring, modeling, mitigation, and forecasting”, EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, 7-12 April 2019 (33 abstracts submitted to the session, 2 oral blocks and a poster session) (Conveners: Antonio P. Rinaldi, Luisa Valoroso, Víctor Vilarrasa and Marie Violay)
  3. Organization of the PICO session “Urban groundwater: a strategic resource”, EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, 7-12 April 2019 (15 abstracts submitted to the session) (Conveners: Estanislao Pujades, Guillaume Attard, Anna Jurado and Víctor Vilarrasa)
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa served as judge of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award contest at the EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, 7-12 April 2019 (6 posters)
  5. Víctor Vilarrasa was member of the jury of the XX Exporecerca Jove, an internationally renowned fair that promotes research among teenagers, organized by MAGMA (www.magmarecerca.org/exporecerca/), Barcelona, 28 February-2 March 2019

 

Other activities 

 

2023

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa serves as reviewer of candidates to become members of the Global Young Academy.
  2. Víctor Vilarrasa is panelist at the event Crafting a Winning ERC-StG proposal: IV Workshop with ERC officers and grantees, organized by the Young Academy of Spain, as grantee from panel PE8, 29 September 2023 (webinar)
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa is mentor of IMEDEA’s Vocational Practices for two high-school students, Esporles, Spain, 7 July 2023
  4. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Green Hydrogen Assessment Committee of the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), Working Group Transport and Distribution, Madrid, Spain (June- December 2023)
  5. Víctor Vilarrasa is panelist of the mock-up interviews for two CSIC’s candidates to the ERC-StG, panel PE8 and PE10, organized by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 8 June 2023
  6. Víctor Vilarrasa is judge of the Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023
  7. Víctor Vilarrasa is mentor of the program MENTOR-AJE of the Young Academy of Spain
  8. Víctor Vilarrasa is mentor of a candidate to the ERC-2023-CoG through CSIC’s Mentorship Plan for ERC

2022

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa is panelist at the event Crafting a Winning ERC-StG proposal: III Workshop with ERC officers and grantees, organized by AJE, as grantee from panel PE8, 7 October 2022 (webinar)
  2. Víctor Vilarrasa is lecturer of the “Workshop on Transferable Skills: Tips for giving effective short presentations”, Training course of the ERC-StG GEoREST, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Esporles, Spain, 22 April 2022
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa is judge of the Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022
  4. Member of the evaluation committee of PhD thesis of Yufei Wang, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (supervisors: Prof. Daniel Fernández-García), entitled “Numerical Modeling of Geological Carbon Sequestration: Enhanced Dissolution in Randomly Heterogeneous Media”
  5. Member of the evaluation committee of PhD thesis of Sandro Andrés, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (supervisors: Prof. Luis Cueto-Felgueroso and David Santillán), entitled “Induced seismicity in geothermal energy exploitations. Coupled numerical simulations of the hydraulic stimulation and its effects to the seismic hazard”
  6. Member of the evaluation committee of PhD thesis of Guillem Piris, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (supervisors: Prof. Albert Griera and Prof. Enrique Gómez Rivas), entitled “Evaluation of reservoir potential and induced seismicity of deep geothermal systems”

2021

  1. Member of the evaluation committee of PhD thesis of Ivar Stefansson, University of Bergen (supervisor: Prof. Inga Berre), entitled “Modelling and simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in fractured porous media”
  2. Victor Vilarrasa is judge of the Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) contest at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2021
  3. Victor Vilarrasa is lecturer of the “Workshop on tips for writing a successful ERC proposal”, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA-CSIC), Esporles, Spain, 30 November 2021
  4. Victor Vilarrasa is lecturer of the “Workshop on Transferable Skills: How to write an abstract”, Training course of the ERC-StG GEoREST, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Esporles, Spain, 19 November 2021
  5. Victor Vilarrasa is panelist of the mock-up interviews for Spanish candidates to the ERC-StG, panel PE8, organized by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), 16 September 2021
  6. Víctor Vilarrasa is member of the Interacademy Partnership (IAP) Working Group on “A net zero climate-resilient future – science, technology and the solutions for change” to prepare a communique that will internationalize the statement on Net Zero prior to the COP26
  7. Víctor Vilarrasa is organizer of the Workshop “Mobilization of Knowledge”, co-organized between Science for the Parliament and the Young Academy of Spain

2020    

  1. Víctor Vilarrasa is speaker at the Welcoming Session to the CSIC’s ERC-StG-2020 grantees, 14 December 2020 (webinar)
  2. Víctor Vilarrasa acts as expert for the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition reviewing the Bill on the regulation of the greenhouse gases emission rights trade for the intensification of the emissions reduction in an effective way relative to costs
  3. Víctor Vilarrasa acts as expert for the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition reviewing the Draft of the Royal Decree on the development of aspects related to the adjustment of the free allocation of greenhouse gas emission rights in the period 2021-2030