Yi Fang

Yi Fang is a geoscientist as well as a geoengineer. He joined the Institute for Geophysics in Jackson School of Geosciences as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Nov 2017. In 2011 and 2013, he earned his B.E. degree in Civil Engineering from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and his M.S. degree in Geology from California State University, Long Beach respectively. In late 2017, he received his Ph.D. degree in Energy and Mineral Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

Yi has strong research interests in the areas of geomechanics and geofluids with application to subsurface energy and mineral resources characterization and recovery, waste storage and disposal, geohazards mitigation, and environmental remediation. During his Ph.D. program at Penn State, he worked with Dr. Derek Elsworth, focusing on research topics such as fluid injection-induced microearthquakes, fault stability, and fluid flow in fractured reservoirs. As a postdoc scholar at UT, he is working with Dr. Peter Flemings, focusing on advancing our knowledge of how gas hydrate system forms, the role of gas hydrate in the carbon cycle, its potential to contribute to climate change and geohazards, and how we might produce these deposits economically and environmentally. To this end, Yi applies multiple experimental methods to explore hydrological properties and mechanical behaviors of gas hydrate-bearing pressure cores retrieved from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.