Sus principales áreas de investigación son:

- Self-Healing Bituminous Materials.
- Waste-Based Construction Materials.

 Proyectos (últimos 5)

1. FONDECYT Regular Project: Modified bitumen with waste hazelnut-shell pyrolysed to improve its rheological and ageing properties: an additive to extend the lifetime of road (2023 – 2027). International Collaborator. ID 1230035. Funded by the National Research and Development Agency, ANID-Chile.
2. Project Consolidation Grant Chile-Switzerland: Potential use of lignin filler waste for the production of sustainable warm asphalt mixtures (2023 – 2024). Co-Investigator at UBB-Chile. Funded by the Leading House for the Latin American Region, University of St. Gallen (CLS HSG), Switzerland.
3. FONDEF Project IDeA: Development of rejuvenating products from the pyrolysis of end-of-life tyres to improve the rheological and self-healing properties of aged binders (2022 – 2023). Principal-Investigator at UBB-Chile. ID 21I10127. Funded by the National Research and Development Agency, ANID-Chile.
4. FONDECYT Regular Project: Lignin-based recycled asphalt pavements: from nano-scale approach to large-scale application (2021 – 2024). Co-Investigator at UBB-Chile. ID 1211009. Funded by the National Research and Development Agency, ANID-Chile.
5. FONDECYT Regular Project: Self-healing of bituminous materials using renewable resource-based microcapsules: a sustainable approach to extend the lifetime of roads (2019 – 2023). Principal-Investigator at UBB-Chile. ID 1190027. Funded by the National Research and Development Agency, ANID-Chile.“Investigation of the effects of capsules containing waste oil on the mechanical properties of self-healing hot mix asphalts”. Tübitak 1001 (TÜBITAK), Turquía. Co-investigador. Código: 217M570. Duración: 2018-2020.

Publicaciones (últimas 10)

1. Viana-Sepulveda, A., Caro, S., Castillo, D., & Norambuena-Contreras, J. (2025). Computation of the dynamic axial modulus and activation potential of virtual self-healing asphalt mixtures with encapsulated rejuvenators. International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 26(1).
2. Martínez-Toledo, C., Valdes-Vidal, G., Calabi-Floody, A., González, M., Ruiz, A., Mignolet-Garrido, C., & Norambuena-Contreras, J. (2025). Optimising slow pyrolysis parameters to enhance biochar European hazelnut shell as a biobased asphalt modifier. Materials Today Sustainability, 30, 101087.
3. Chávez-Delgado, M., Concha, J., Caro, S., Arteaga-Pérez, L., & Norambuena-Contreras, J. (2025). Enhancing rheological and self-healing properties of aged bitumen using a pyro-rejuvenator from waste tyres. Construction and Building Materials, 470, 140639.
4. Colina, J., Ortega, M., Norambuena-Contreras, J., Ghysels, S., Ronsse, F., & Arteaga-Pérez, L. (2025). Thermo-catalytic depolymerization of lignin over Pd-based catalysts: Role of catalyst support on monoaromatics selectivity. Biomass and Bioenergy, 193, 107547.
5. Arteaga-Pérez, L., Larrere, S., Chávez-Delgado, M., Ordoñez, Y., Concha, J., Segura, C., Norambuena-Contreras, J., & Casas-Ledón, Y. (2025). Environmental life cycle assessment of encapsulated rejuvenators from mining truck waste tires via pyrolysis for asphalt self-healing. Journal of Cleaner Production, 490, 144787.
6. Marquez, J., Fuentes, V., Rueda, E., Tundidor-Camba, A., Escalona, N., Norambuena-Contreras, J., & González, A. (2024). Temperature effect of asphalt production on the thermo-chemical properties of Kraft lignin. International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 25(1).
7. Norambuena-Contreras, J., Concha, J., Varela, M., Trigos, L., Poulikakos, L., González, A., & Arraigada, M. (2024). Microwave Heating and Self-Healing Performance of Asphalt Mixtures Containing Metallic Fibres from Recycled Tyres. Materials, 17(23), 5950.
8. Norambuena-Contreras, J., Concha, J., Valdes-Vidal, G., & Wood, C. (2024). Optimised biopolymer-based capsules for enhancing the mechanical and self-healing properties of asphalt mixtures. Materials and Structures, 57(10), 236.
9. Chen, N., Wang, H., Liu, Q., Norambuena-Contreras, J., & Wu, S. (2024). The Production of Porous Asphalt Mixtures with Damping Noise Reduction and Self-Healing Properties through the Addition of Rubber Granules and Steel Wool Fibers. Polymers, 16(17), 2408.
10. Chávez-Delgado, M., Colina, J., Segura, C., Álvarez, C., Osorio-Vargas, P., Arteaga-Pérez, L., & Norambuena-Contreras, J. (2024). Asphalt pyro-rejuvenators based on waste tyres: An approach to improve the rheological and self-healing properties of aged binders. Journal of Cleaner Production, 452, 142179.