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Quanlin Zhou

Staff Scientist

Building 074, Room 0208

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-5748

Fax: 510-486-5686

qzhou@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
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Biography

Dr. Zhou is a Geological Staff Scientist with the Hydrogeology Department in the Energy Geosciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California.

He began his career at Hohai University, Nanjing, China as an undergraduate and a graduate in Hydrology and Water Resources. Upon his graduation, he continued his career at Nanjing Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, conducting flood-control and water resources management research on the Three-Gorge Project and the South-North Water Transfer Project. He then pursued PhD studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, developing numerical techniques for modeling of seawater intrusion and density-dependent flow, leading to completion of his doctoral thesis. As a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, he developed numerical codes to investigate phenomena of DNAPL migration in heterogeneous porous media and compared numerical-modeling results to stochastic-analysis ones.

     

Research Interests

At LBNL, Dr. Zhou has been leading and involved in research projects in the following topics:

  • Analytical and numerical modeling of fluid flow and heat/solute transport in fractured/porous media for geologicalcarbon storage, geothermal energy production, nuclear waste disposal, and contamination remediation
  • Multiphase and unsaturated flow in heterogeneous fractured/porous media: preferential flow and fracture-matrixinteractions
  • Theoretical studies and field evidence of thermal fracturing at CO2 storage sites and in enhanced geothermalsystems (EGS)
  • Geological carbon storage: fundamental and dynamic processes of CO2 flow channeling, invasion, spreading, andbreakthrough (CISB) at laboratory and field scale; CO2 plume migration and enhanced storage in heterogeneousand fractured rocks; pressure buildup and brine migration and their impact on groundwater resources at basin scale;early leakage detection via joint inversion
  • Diffusive transport in fractured rock and layered porous media: fundamental diffusive flux equation and memory functions; coupling of hydraulic, solute, or thermal diffusion with advection and dispersion in fractures or high-permeability channels; field-scale effective diffusion in heterogeneous media
  • Field flow and transport processes with enhanced understanding: data integration and analysis, forward modeling, and joint inversion for several field projects of geological carbon storage; analysis of field tracer tests; large-scale contaminant plumes with physical, chemical, microbial (biodegradation) processes
  • Density-dependent flow for seawater intrusion and convective dissolved CO2 transport

Education

  • Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1996-1999
  • M.S. Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, China, 1987-1990
  • B.S. Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, China, 1983-1987

Experience

  • Geological Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), 2012-Present
  • Geological Research Scientist (Career), LBNL, 2008-2011
  • Geological Research Scientist (Career-Track), LBNL, 2006-2008
  • Senior Modeler, ETIC Engineering Inc, Oakland, CA, 2005-2006
  • Geological Scientist, LBNL, 2002-2005
  • Geological Postdoctoral Fellow, LBNL, 2001-2002
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, 2000-2001
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1999-2000
  • Senior Engineer (Engineer for 1990­­-1995), Nanjing Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China, 1990-1996

Awards

  • “Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2012
  • “Outstanding Performance Award,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2007
  • “The Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Award,” the Gutwirth Foundation, Israel, 1999
  • “The Irmay Prize," Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1998
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