Mineralized quartz veins (~20 cm thick), Panasqueira Mine, Portugal Structural Geology Research Projects 2024–Present New methods for the reconstruction of the entire paleostress tensor, funded by the China Scholarship Council (PhD thesis of Zhihan Li). 2023–Present Application of geological-structural and geomechanical analysis for risk mitigation: A case study of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, Mexico, funded by CONACYT, Mexico (PhD thesis of Oscar Zárate). 2015–2020 Steady-state vs. transient heat transfer in the COSC-1 drillhole, Central Sweden: Implications for heat and fluid flows in Precambrian shields, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (PhD thesis of Richard Löwe). 2014–2016 Structural and mechanical characterization of natural hydrofractures in three dimensions, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (Postdoctoral research by Luís Jaques). 2010–Present Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC), an ICDP project. Examples of Publications Books Pascal, C., 2021. Paleostress inversion techniques: methods and applications for tectonics. Elsevier 274 pp. Peer-reviewed publications Löwe, R., Renner, J., Pascal, C., Adl-Zarrabi, B., Balling, N., Bording, T.S., Long, M., Schwarz, G., and Sundberg, J., 2025. Inter-laboratory testing of thermal properties at ambient pressure on reference samples and core samples from the COSC-1 scientific drill hole, central Sweden, Geophysical Journal International, 241, 405–436. Lehnert, O. + 18 co-authors (including Pascal, C.), 2024. The COSC-2 drill core and its well-preserved lower Palaeozoic sedimentary succession – an unexpected treasure beneath the Caledonian nappes, Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 73, 134-140. Nigon, B., Pascal, C., and Englert, A., Modeling the impact of natural roughness of tension joints on heat transport, Geothermics, 124, 103145. Pascal, C., and Balling, N., 2023. Heat flow of northern Norway, new data and interpretations, Tectonophysics, 867, 230067. Fuchs + 36 co-authors (including Pascal, C.), 2023. Quality-assurance of heat-flow data: the new structure and evaluation scheme of the IHFC global heat flow database, Tectonophysics, 863, 229976. Senger + 16 co-authors (including Pascal, C.), 2023. The subsurface thermal state of Svalbard and implications for geothermal potential, Geothermics, 111, 102702. Xu, C., Deng, Y., Barnes, C.G., Shi, H., Pascal, C., Li, Y., Gao, S., Jiang, D., Xie, J. and Ma, C., 2023. Offshore-onshore tectonomagmatic correlations: Towards a Late Mesozoic non-Andean-type Cathaysian continental margin, Earth-Science Reviews, 240, 104382. Pascal, C., Jaques, L., and Yamaji, A., 2022. Full paleostress tensor reconstruction using quartz veins of Panasqueira Mine, central Portugal; part II: final results, Journal of Structural Geology, 162, 104688. Pascal, C., 2022. 3D thermal modelling of the Oslo-Asker area, Norway, Geothermics, 103, 102430. Lorenz, H. + 16 co-authors (including Pascal, C.), 2022. COSC-2 – drilling the basal décollement and underlying margin of paleocontinent Baltica in the Paleozoic Caledonide orogen of Scandinavia, Scientific Drilling, 30, 43–57. Nigon, B., Englert, A., and Pascal, C., 2019. Three-dimensional flow characterization in a joint with plumose pattern, Hydrogeology Journal, 27, 87-99. Nigon, B., Englert, A., Pascal, C., and Saintot, A., 2017. Multi-scale characterization of joint surface roughness, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 122, 9714–9728. Jaques, L., and Pascal, C., 2017. Full paleostress tensor reconstruction using quartz veins of Panasqueira Mine, central Portugal; part I: paleopressure determination, Journal of Structural Geology, 102, 58-74.