Faculty

Lauren Beckingham (PI and lead, subsurface utilization and storage)

Department of Civil Engineering

Expertise: Environmental Engineering, contaminant fate & transport, geologic CO2 sequestration

Associated Research Area: Water-rock interactions in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), enhanced oil recovery (EOR), compressed air energy storage (CAES), geologic sequestration

Andrew Adamczyk

Department of Chemical Engineering

Expertise: Multi-scale modeling of reacting systems, computational chemistry, microkinetics

Associated Research Area: Nanomaterials formation and characterization, catalysis

Bryan Beckingham (Lead, materials)

Department of Chemical Engineering

Expertise: Polymer chemistry & physics, membranes for separations and ion transport

Associated Research Area: Membranes for solar fuel production, wellbore sealants, CO2 containing polymers

Carlos Carrero (Lead, green fuels and chemicals)

Department of Chemical Engineering

Expertise: Heterogeneous Catalysis, Chemical Kinetics and Spectroscopy

Associated Research Area: CO2 reduction, dry reforming, RWGS, ODH

David King

Geosciences Department

Expertise: Sedimentary geology, characteristics of sedimentary rocks, stratigraphy

Associated Research Area: Geologic site evaluation

Ming-Kuo Lee

Geosciences Department

Expertise: Hydrogeologist, laboratory and modeling of water chemistry, reactive transport

Associated Research Area: Geologic sequestration

Marta Miletic

Department of Civil Engineering

Expertise: Strain localization, mechanics of geo-materials, damage and healing, soil- structure interaction

Associated Research Area: THM modeling, mechanics of geomaterials

Tae-Sik Oh

Department of Chemical Engineering

Expertise: Ceramic processing, solid state electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis

Associated Research Area: Energy conversion, solid-gas interaction

Anton Schindler

Department of Civil Engineering

Expertise: Concrete durability, high- performance concrete, concrete behavior modeling, sustainable construction

Associated Research Area: Wellbore integrity

Ashraf Uddin

Geosciences Department

Expertise: Basin analysis, sedimentary petrology, tectonics, stratigraphy, geochronology

Associated Research Area: Geologic site evaluation