Jack Li - Geophysicist

About Me

I am a geophysicist specializing in laboratory seismic/acoustic wave experimentation to study rock deformation and fracture.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on:

Multi-scale physical and numerical modelling.

Laboratory seismic data processing.

Numerical modeling of seismic wave propagation.

Design of rock deformation experiments.

Education

PhD in Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Thesis: Elastic immersive wave experimentation (2018–2022)

MSc in Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, United States - Thesis: A unified interpretation of nonlinear elasticity in granular solids (2016–2018)

BSc (Hons) in Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2014–2016)

BSc in Geology, Nanjing University, China (2012–2014)

Research Stories

Immersive Wave Experimentation (IWE): Cloaking, Holography, and Cloning

Mixing real lab setups with virtual media to cancel wall reflections, hide objects, project illusions, and clone acoustic signatures of scatterers.

Seismic Monitoring under Triaxial Loading

Combined active and passive monitoring of stress–strain evolution in rocks.

Nonlinear Elasticity in Resonance

Thermodynamics‑based model for nonclassical resonance behavior.

Induced Seismicity (Rosemanowes)

Hydraulic diffusivity and seismic–aseismic coupling at a UK HDR site.

Digital twins for designing laboratory seismic experiments

Survey optimization, source signature correction, and experimental design.

Seismic Monitoring of Fracture Networks During Hydraulic Fracturing

Monitoring the evolution of fracture networks during hydraulic fracturing using advanced seismic techniques.

Publications

Li, X., Robertsson, J., and van Manen, D-J. Elastic immersive wave experimentation, Geophysical Journal International, 2023.

Li, X., Robertsson, J., Curtis, A., and van Manen, D-J. Internal absorbing boundary conditions for closed-aperture wavefield decomposition in solid media with unknown interiors, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2022.

Li, X., Koene, E., van Manen, D-J., Robertsson, J., and Curtis, A. Elastic immersive wavefield modelling, Journal of Computational Physics, 2022.

Li, X., Becker, T., Ravasi, M., Robertsson, J., and van Manen, D-J.Closed-aperture unbounded acoustics experimentation using multidimensional deconvolution, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021.

Li, X., Robertsson, J., Curtis, A., and van Manen, D-J. Compensating for source directivity in immersive wave experimentation, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019.

Li, X., Sens-Schönfelder, C., and Snieder, R. Nonlinear elasticity in resonance experiments, Physical Review B, 2018.

Li, X., Main, I., and Jupe, A. Induced seismicity at the UK ‘hot dry rock’ test site for geothermal energy production, Geophysical Journal International, 2018.

Müller, J., Becker, T. S., Li, X., Aichele, J., Serra-Garcia, M., Robertsson, J. O. A., van Manen, D-J., Acoustic cloning, Physical Review Applied, 2023.

Becker, T. S., van Manen, D-J., Haag, T., Bärlocher, C., Li, X., Bösing, N., Curtis, A., Serra-Garcia, M., and Robertsson, J. Broadband acoustic invisibility and illusions, Science Advances, 2021.

van Manen, D-J., Li, X. (Corresponding author) , Vasmel, R., Broggini, F., and Robertsson, J. Exact extrapolation and immersive modelling with finite-difference injection, Geophysical Journal International, 2020.

Sens-Schönfelder, C., Snieder, R., and Li, X. A model for nonlinear elasticity in rocks based on internal friction and contact aging, Geophysical Journal International, 2019.

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Jack Xun Li