Title: Coupled Research on Flow and Transport with Microorganisms in Porous Media  

Speaker: Shuo Yang (Postdoctoral Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS)  

Time: October 29 (Thursday), 10:00 – 11:00  

Venue: Room 105 of the Shaw Engineering Building  

Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Abstract  

Driven by major demands in subsurface energy exploitation, water resource protection and environmental remediation, subsurface engineering technologies including geological carbon sequestration, underground hydrogen storage and bioremediation have developed rapidly. These processes are closely associated with fluid motion, mass transport and microbial activities within the pores of subsurface rocks and soils. This presentation will first briefly summarize the author’s recent research series on flow and transport processes in subsurface porous media using microfluidic techniques, and then focus on recent advances regarding the interactions between microbial biofilms and fluid flow.

Biography  

Shuo Yang is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Géosciences Rennes, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He will join the research group of Prof. David A. Weitz (Member of three U.S. National Academies, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering) at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2026. He received his M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University in 2020 and his PhD in Energy Science from Lund University, Sweden, in 2024. His research focuses on microfluidics, porous media flow, and heat and mass transfer processes. He has published more than ten peer-reviewed papers in journals including Water Resources Research (WRR) and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, with several manuscripts under review for Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) and PNAS. He is the recipient of the Stig Borglin Prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Society of Geography and the InterPore 2026 Best Poster Award. He currently leads an international postdoctoral project funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). He also serves as a core team member for the ANR IMAGE project and two Swedish Research Council Starting Grant projects. He regularly acts as an ad-hoc reviewer for journals including WRR, ATE and POF, and serves as a session chair for InterPore 2026.

Announced by School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.