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I am an Assistant Professor in Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Program in Applied Math. Before I joined the U of A, I was a postdoc in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University working with Prof. Hamdi Tchelepi. I received my PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University in 2016 working with Prof. Michael Celia in the Subsurface Hydrology Research Group, and my B.S. (with highest honor) in Hydraulic Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 2011.Show Less
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Courses
- NMSHNumerical Methods in Subsurface Hydrology
- EOWHEarth: Our Watery Home
- NMETPNumerical Methods for Environmental Transport Problems
- VZHVadose Zone Hydrology
Grants
- CAREER: Unraveling the role of thin water films in controlling subsurface transport of surface-active contaminants across scales
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$331.6K
Active - Determining Site-Specific Soil Screening Levels for Eielson AFB, Alaska
Co-Investigator (COI)
2023
$233.0K
Active - A Multi-Scale and Interdisciplinary Center to Address the Environmental Fate, Transport, and Remediation of Per- and Polyfluoro-alkyl Substances (PFASs)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$50.4K
Active - Tempe cell method for PFAS leaching services
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$373.8K
Active - Collaborative Research: ERASE-PFAS: Stabilization of Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances in Sewage Sludge Intended for Land-application
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$120.0K
Active - Collaborative Research: GCR: Growing a New Science of Landscape Terraformation: The Convergence of Rock, Fluids, and Life to form Complex Ecosystems Across Scales
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.2M
Active - Development and Demonstration of PFAS-LEACH, A Comprehensive Decision Support Platform for Predicting PFAS Leaching in Small Zones
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$681.1K
Active - Collaborative Research: In Situ Laboratory Imaging and Modeling of PFAS Transport and Fate in Variably Saturated Heterogeneous Porous Media
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$155.2K
Active - Pore-Scale Modeling of the Compositional Flow and Phase Behaviors of Hydrocarbons in Shale Formations
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$110.0K
Active - Understanding and Quantifying the Retention and Migration of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Vadose Zone
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$398.5K
Active
News
- UArizona Receives $1.3M Federal Grant to Study Synthetic Chemicals Posing Risk to Regional Aquifer
2021
- Researchers: Synthetic Chemicals in Soils are 'Ticking Time Bomb'
2020
Publications (50)
Recent
- Revising the EPA dilution-attenuation soil screening model for PFAS
2023
- Reduced Accessible Air–Water Interfacial Area Accelerates PFAS Leaching in Heterogeneous Vadose Zones
2023
- Wetting Dynamics of Spontaneous Imbibition in Porous Media: from Pore Scale to Darcy Scale
2022
- Transformation in the Stability of Tide‐induced Upper Saline Plume Driven by Transient External Forcing
2022
- An Adaptive Hybrid Vertical Equilibrium/Full-Dimensional Model for Compositional Multiphase Flow
2022
- PFAS concentrations in soil versus soil porewater: Mass distributions and the impact of adsorption at air-water interfaces
2022
- Air-water interfacial adsorption of C4-C10 perfluorocarboxylic acids during transport in unsaturated porous media
2022
- An adaptive hybrid vertical equilibrium/full dimensional model for compositional multiphase flow
2022
- A hybrid multiscale framework coupling multilayer dynamic reconstruction and full-dimensional models for CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers
2021
- Effect of Pore Geometry and Heterogeneous Surface Wettability on the Nanoconfined Phase Behavior in Nanopore Networks of Shale Rocks
2021
- Air-water interfacial areas relevant for transport of per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances
2021
- A pore-network-based upscaling framework for the nanoconfined phase behavior in shale rocks
2021
- Impact of a Hydrocarbon Surfactant on the Retention and Transport of Perfluorooctanoic Acid in Saturated and Unsaturated Porous Media
2021
- Multidimensional simulation of PFAS transport and leaching in the vadose zone: Impact of surfactant-induced flow and subsurface heterogeneities
2021
- A screening model for quantifying PFAS leaching in the vadose zone and mass discharge to groundwater
2021
- Reactive transport modeling of basalt weathering and early soil formation within a highly-controlled, sloping lysimeter.
2021
- Model validation and analyses of parameter sensitivity and uncertainty for modeling long-term retention and leaching of PFAS in the vadose zone
2021
- Testing the validity of the miscible-displacement interfacial tracer method for measuring air-water interfacial area: Independent benchmarking and mathematical modeling
2021
- The impact of multiple-component PFAS solutions on fluid-fluid interfacial adsorption and transport of PFOS in unsaturated porous media
2021
- Ideal versus Nonideal Transport of PFAS in Unsaturated Porous Media
2021
- Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater at a reclaimed water recharge facility
2021
- Pore-scale modeling of fluid-fluid interfacial area in variably saturated porous media containing micro-scale surface roughness
2020
- Fully implicit dynamic pore‐network modeling of two‐phase flow and phase change in porous media
2020
- PFAS concentrations in soils: Background levels versus contaminated sites
2020
- A Mathematical Model for the Release, Transport, and Retention of Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Vadose Zone
2020
- Characterization of the micro-scale surface roughness effect on immiscible fluids and interfacial areas in porous media using the measurements of interfacial partitioning …
2020
- Low-concentration tracer tests to measure air-water interfacial area in porous media
2020
- Pore‐Scale Modeling of Fluid‐Fluid Interfacial Area in Variably Saturated Porous Media Containing Microscale Surface Roughness
2019
- Dynamic pore-network modeling of air-water flow through thin porous layers
2019
- Vertically-integrated dual-continuum models for CO2 sequestration in fractured reservoirs
2019
- Multiscale formulation for pore-scale compressible Darcy-Stokes flow
2019
- Vertically integrated dual-continuum models for CO2 injection in fractured geological formations
2019
- Effects of Image Resolution on Sandstone Porosity and Permeability as Obtained from X-Ray Microscopy
2019
- A guideline for appropriate application of vertically-integrated modeling approaches for geologic carbon storage modeling
2019
- An adaptive multiphysics model coupling vertical equilibrium and full multidimensions for multiphase flow in porous media
2018
- Modelling hydraulic fracturing with a point-based approximation for the maximum principal stress criterion
2018
- Image-based micro-continuum model for gas flow in organic-rich shale rock
2018
- Vertically integrated dual-porosity and dual-permeability models for CO2 sequestration in fractured geological formation
2017
- Vertically Integrated Dual-porosity and Dual-permeability Models for CO<inf>2</inf> Sequestration in Fractured Geological Formation
2017
- Applicability of Vertically Integrated Models for Carbon Storage Modeling in Structured Heterogeneous Domains
2017
- A Pseudo‐Vertical Equilibrium Model for Slow Gravity Drainage Dynamics
2017
- Flow regime analysis for geologic CO<inf>2</inf>sequestration and other subsurface fluid injections
2016
- Flow regime analysis for geologic CO2 sequestration and other subsurface fluid injections
2016
- A multiscale multilayer vertically integrated model with vertical dynamics for CO2 sequestration in layered geological formations
2016
- Axisymmetric flows from fluid injection into a confined porous medium
2016
- Fluid injection and migration in the subsurface: Reduced-order models and multiscale modeling approaches
2016
- Flow regimes for fluid injection into a confined porous medium
2015
- Application of Vertically-Integrated Models with Subscale Vertical Dynamics to Field Sites for CO2 Sequestration
2014
- A vertically integrated model with vertical dynamics for CO2 storage
2014
- Bias error induced by concentration gradients in the measurement of sediment-laden flows
2011