Members

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