Liwei Zhang is now the Vice Director of Geologic CO2 Storage and Engineering Safety Research Center, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his MS Degree from Duke University in 2010 and his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013.
Zhang’s research has been focused on experimental and numerical studies on geologic CO2 storage. Specific research areas include evolution of pore structure and mineral composition of wellbore cement under CO2-rich environment, subsurface mineral dissolution and precipitation at CO2-water-rock interface, leaching behavior of metal ions from ores and fly ash under high concentration CO2, etc.
He has secured research grants equivalent to 2 million USD in GCS research. He has written four monographs as editor or co-editor, published over 100 papers in top-tier journals like Applied Energy, Environmental Science and Technology, Cement and Concrete Composites, etc., and held 20 invention patents. He has close research collaborations with more than 30 researchers in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, and other countries.
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