Students & Postdocs

Ammar Alali

Ph.D. Student

Ammar's research focuses on developing efficient and accurate finite-volume discretization schemes for numerical modeling. This includes capillary-dominated multiphase flow interactions applied to subsurface heterogeneous and fractured porous media with particular interest in CCS applications.

Sidian Chen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sidian's current research focuses on pore-scale modeling of multiphase fluid flow, multispecies transport, and thermodynamic phase change behaviors in geological and manufactured porous materials.

Cedric Fraces

Ph.D. Student

Cedric's research focuses on integrating physics-based modeling and machine learning for subsurface flow and transport. His work develops mesh-free, physics-informed neural networks for hyperbolic PDEs, with a particular emphasis on uncertainty quantification and decision support in applications such as CO₂ storage, contaminate transport, and energy systems.

Salavat Ishbulatov

Ph.D. Student

Salavat's research focuses on developing and implementing numerical algorithms for multiphysics problems in GEOX, with a focus on multiscale methods and parallel solvers.

Shaunak Joshi

Ph.D. Student

Shaunak's research aims to improve the performance of new battery materials, enhancing battery capacity and understanding the underlying expansion mechanisms.

Taeho Kim

Postdoctoral Scholar

Taeho's research focuses on computational modeling of fault activation from subsurface fluid injections in the context of geothermal energy and carbon sequestration.

Nik Markus Leuenberger

Ph.D. Student

Nik's current research involves pore-scale modeling of batteries through virtual microscopy and simulations.

Ralph Piazza

Ph.D. Student

Ralph focuses on numerical reservoir simulation in his research, specifically working to enhance nonlinear solvers through domain decomposition techniques.

Yu Qiu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Yu's current research focuses on modeling unstable two-phase flow in disordered media to assess the feasibility of subsurface hydrogen storage. More broadly, her work includes the fundamental analysis and upscaling of viscous fingering.

Changgyun Son

Ph.D. Student

Changgyun aims to address the high costs associated with simulating large reservoirs in his research, proposing a method that partitions the reservoir into smaller domains for more cost-effective simulations.

Catherine Spurin

Postdoctoral Scholar

Dimitri Trifunac

Ph.D. Student

Dimitri's research focuses on coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics simulations to advance understanding of fault slip physics and assess caprock integrity for geologic carbon storage applications.