
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Scientists

Gyeol Han
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests
• Develop fracture surface generation method
• Fracture characterization and analysis
• Coupled reactions in fractures (C-H, T-H-M, M-H, C-M-H)
• X-ray CT technology for geological applications
Ph. D. Students.

Jun Yeop Yeo
Ph. D. Student
Research Interests
•Gas flow in nano/micropores of underground gas storage.
•Gas mixing in micropores of underground gas storage.
•Particle laden flow.
•Hydrogen genesis.

Joya Rani Mallick
Ph. D. Student
Research Interests
•Continuous flow geochemistry
•Fracture Sealing
•Gas adsorption in porous media
•Hydrogen hydrate in hydrogels
•Offshore urban scale hydrogen storage

Jose Maria Ferdinand Calaunan
Ph. D. Student
Research Interests
•Hydromechanical properties of clay tactoids through thin films for sealing applications in energy storage systems
•Radiation-induced effects on bentonite using electrokinetics and surface morphology for nuclear waste disposal
•Extraction and recovery of rare earth elements from fine-grained materials
•Advanced laboratory characterization techniques of geomaterials

Weiling Cai
Ph. D. Student
Research Interests
•Multiphase flow in porous media
•Geologic hydrogen storage
•Thermal-hydro-chemo-mechanical coupled processes
•Geophysical multiscale geomaterials characterization

Gyuseong Woo
Ph. D. Student
Research Interests
•In-situ test results correlation using learning models
•Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of intact and fractured rock
•Numerical modeling of conductance behaviors
•Deep-borehole application into geothermal and nuclear energy
Visiting Ph.D. student
Undergraduate Researchers – 3REE students
REE (Rare Earth Element) students.
Rohan K Faizer
Joseph I Loza
Ty E Vasquez