People

Principal Investigator

Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini Senior Research Scientist Bureau of Economic Geology John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences University of Texas at Austin University Station, Box X Austin, TX  78712-8924 seyyed.hosseini@beg.utexas.edu

Researchers

Shadya Taleb Graduate Student shadya.taleb@utmail.utexas.edu Research: Pore scale modeling of CO2 (Numerical and Experimental)

Richard Larson   richardcoltlarson@gmail.com Research: Pore scale modeling of CO2 (Experimental)

Former Members

 Postdoc Scholars

• Sahar Bakhshian, 2018-2019, Currently: Research Associate at Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin
• Baole Wen, 2017-2018, Currently: Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
• Ali Goudarzi, 2016 – 2018, Currently: Technology/Intellectual Property Analyst at UT Austin Office of Technology Commercialization, UT Austin
• Reza Ganjdanesh, 2015 – 2017, Currently: Research Associate at Center for Subsurface Energy & the Environment, UT Austin
• Houman Bedayat, 2014 – 2015, Currently: Data Scientist at Amazon Alexa
• Seunghee Kim, 2013 – 2014, Currently: Assistant Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Neraska-Lincoln

Summer Interns

• Sassan Hajirezaie, Summer 2018, Princeton University.
• Mohamed Mehana, Summer 2018, University of Oklahoma.
• Samir Prasun, Summer 2018, Louisiana State University.
• Masoud Alfi, Summer 2016, Texas A&M University.
• Alexander Tarakanov, Summer 2017, Texas A&M University.
• Mehrdad Alfi, Summer 2017, Texas A&M University.
• Amirhossein Kamali, Summer 2017, University of Oklahoma.
• Masoud Alfi, Summer 2015 and 2016, Texas A&M University.

Visiting Scholars

• Mahmood Shakiba, University of Texas at Austin.
• Xueyan Liu, SCSIO
• Hassan Dashtian, USC
• Kristian Gundersen, University of Bergen
• Dong Feng, Beijing University

 Graduate Students

• Ph.D., Dissertation Committee, Reza Ershadnia, Understanding of Methane Fate and Transport in Groundwater, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2022
• Ph.D., Dissertation Committee, Pooneh Hosseininoosheri, CO2 Trapping Mechanisms Assessment Using Numerical and Analytical Methods, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex., 2020
• Ph.D. Dissertation committee, Hojung Jung, Analyses of Coupled Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Processes for Safe Carbon Geological Storage, The University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum Engineering, 2017
• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Sayantan Bhowmik, Particle Tracking Proxies for Prediction of CO2 Plume Migration Within a Model Selection Framework, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum Engineering, 2013

Short-term URA’s

• Emmanuel Belostrino, B.Sc., Chemical Engineering
• Ian M. Hanes, B.Sc., Hydro-geology
• Kyle Goncalves, B.Sc., Petroleum Engineering
• Mahyar Shakiba, B.Sc., Chemical Engineering
• Noah Binford, B.Sc., Geology
• Margaret Murakami, B.Sc., Geology