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Acknowledgements
I want to thank my advisor J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández for providing me the
opportunity to carry out this study. I thank him for his academical instruction
and encouragement in these four-year PhD study. I deeply appreciate his
patience, his kindness and the time he spent with me.
This research was supported by European Union (Project PAMINA) and
ENRESA, Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos S.A. An extra travel
grant to the author from Ministry of Education is also gratefully acknowledged.
I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen.
I am grateful to him for his continuous suggestions since I visited his group in
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, in 2010. The developments of Chapter
4-6 benefit from his valuable comments and suggestions. Thanks also to Dr.
Xian-Huan Wen for his help and support and to Dr. Jianlin Fu for his help
in academia and life when I arrived at Valencia. Dr. Gerónimo Llerar-Meza
provided me technical support for the Chapter 3 and is much appreciated.
Thanks to Eduardo Cassiraga, who helped me prepare some documents. I
always appreciate Prof. Li Wan and Prof. Fusheng Hu from China University
of Geosciences (Beijing), who helped me so much since I started the Master
study in China.
My special thanks to Haiyan for her interesting discussion and understanding,
which would make our stay abroad so meaningful, colorful and fruitful,
and it will be in my heart forever.
Many thanks to the colleagues in the group of hydrogeology: Andrés, Eduardo,
Javier, Haiyan, Jianlin, Gero, Peter, Oscar, Amanda, Julio, Teng. I
am very happy for my time in Valencia.
Finally I would like to thank Haiyan and our families. Without your
support, nothing would be possible for me.
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