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Porous Media Flow Lab - The Team

Join the group!

Currently recruiting:

  • PhD students with a strong background in multiphase flow and/or reactive transport and prior experience with core flooding experiments, micro-CT image analysis and/or modeling

  • MS student in Geoscience Education to work on developing a new virtual fieldwork experience

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2026

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2025

Current Group Members

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Graduate Student (PhD)

Tracy Chukwuma

I am a Ph.D candidate with a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria.

My primary interest is to improve characterization of geologic carbon sequestration systems to ensure safe and long-term CO2 storage. In particular, my research work involves advanced high-resolution X-ray micro-CT and SEM data analysis and hybrid pore-scale and continnum-scale modeling of reactive flow and transport processes in geologic CO2 storage systems.

When I’m not working I enjoy reading novels and webtoons, traveling, watching movies, and listening to music, and if there’s enough incentive I might also sing and dance!

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Graduate Student (PhD)

Luqman Olawale

I am a PhD candidate with a Bachelor's degree in Geological Sciences from Osun State University, Nigeria, and a Master's degree in Geology from Kansas State University, USA. 
My research aims to advance understanding of the interplay between multiphase flow and mineral reactions using core-flooding experiments coupled with X-ray micro-CT imaging.
Outside of my academic work, I enjoy playing soccer and adventure traveling, and I’m also developing a hobby in swimming.

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Graduate Student (MS)

Raymond Aderoju

I am a second year Master's student in the Geology program. I hold a Bachelor of Technology degree in Applied Geology from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. 

My research interests focus on developing hybrid models that integrate numerical models with machine learning techniques to predict the behavior of multiphase flows (CO2 and water) and transport in complex porous media.

In my free time I enjoy playing soccer and tennis, which keeps me active and helps me relax.

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Undergraduate Student

Spencer Lee

bio coming soon

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Undergraduate Student

Matthew Hackett

I’m a fourth year mechanical engineering undergraduate with interest in clean energy and sustainability. I have a background in carbon capture methods with a focus on Direct Air Capture.

Outside of academics I enjoy film photography, live music, and rollercoasters. I love watching psychological thrillers and have worked on a music video that showed at multiple film festivals.

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Undergraduate Student

Kayce Bagwell

bio coming soon

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Lab Assistant

Barnaby Garing

I have extensive experience and skills to provide support in the laboratory and on the field. 
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Former Group Members

Bennett Goellner, BS 2026

Ella Claxton, BS 2025 (MS at the University of Houston)

Kwaku Asiedu, MS 2025 (PhD at the University of Georgia)

Kaitlin Gooch, BS 2024 (MS at Louisiana State University)

Benjamin Kenney, BS 2024 (MS at Colorado School of Mines)

Jay Mrazek, BS 2024 (Hydrology Assistant, National Park Service)

Parker Whitley, MS 2022 (Geologist/Hydrogeologist, South Carolina DNR geological Survey)

Abdullah Al Nahian, MS 2021 (PhD at Auburn University) ​

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