Biography

I am a Postdoctoral fellow working with Timothy J. Kneafsey in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). My primary research interests are experimental studies on reservoir processes and subsurface hydrology in porous and fractured media, including multiphase flow, phase dissolution and mass transfer, interfacial and wetting phenomena, carbon dioxide sequestration and shale gas. At LBNL, I work on the pore-scale supercritical CO₂-brine displacement, mass transfer and interfacial wetting effect under reservoir high pressure and high temperature conditions through 2D micromodels with fluorescent tracer dye and microscopy. I also work on core-scale fracture-matrix multiphase flow and mass transfer with CT imaging. My other interests include approaches to quantitatively describe and characterize permafrost core using multi-energy CT scanning.