Chunwei Sun will stay for 2 years in the Risk Group at UNIL. Chunwei is a joint-PhD student of the Department of Geological Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China. His research involves geochemical weathering in rock mass deterioration and the oxidation-acid erosion mechanism of black shale especially. During his stay at UNIL, he will focus on the analysis of fissure water, ion exchange and elements migration processes under water-rock chemical interaction.