
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

Andrea Muñoz Ibáñez
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests
• Carbon mineralization in mafic fractured formations
• Hydro-chemo-mechanical coupled processes
• Geologic hydrogen and hydrogen storage
• Rock fracture mechanics
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

Haochen Huang
Visiting Ph.D. student (CUPB)
•Production enhancement of natural gas hydrate
•Cavitation water jet
•Molecular simulation about the decomposition of gas hydrate
•Laser-induced cavitation erosion to solid surfaces
Undergraduate Researchers – 3REE students
REE (Rare Earth Element) students.
Rohan K Faizer
Joseph I Loza
Ty E Vasquez
At KAUST

Jooyoung Im
Research Scholar (Collaborator, KAUST)
•Sustainable geotechnical engineering solutions to combat climate change and desertification.
•Soil erosion prevention and soil preservation against natural and climate hazards
•Geotechnical evaluation of natural; artificial; and bio-treated soils through laboratory (micro) to field (macro) experimental approaches.