Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nima Shokri
Professor, Dean and Institute Director at Hamburg University of Technology
Hamburg, Germany
E-mail: nima.shokri(at)tuhh.de
Nima Shokri is a Professor and Chair of Geo-Hydroinformatics at the Hamburg University of Technology. His main interests lie in creating new knowledge through research and innovation, developing new measurement tools and predictive capabilities to provide accurate understanding of multiphysics, multiscale, and multiphase processes occurring near Earth’s surface. He combines theory, state-of-the-art modelling, and experiments using cutting-edge tools such as thermal imaging, microfluidics, synchrotron X-ray tomography, satellite remote sensing, advanced machine learning, and computational fluid dynamics simulations, to cross disciplinary boundaries required to understand the complex mechanisms controlling heat, energy and mass transfer near Earth’s surface with a particular focus on the processes occurring in soil coupled with climatic parameters.
- Website: https://www.tuhh.de/ghi/people/prof-dr-nima-shokri
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Editors
Dr. Martinus Th. (“Rien”) van Genuchten
Department of Nuclear Engineering
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
rvangenuchten@hotmail.com
Research Areas: Water flow and solute transport processes in soils and groundwater, Characterization and measurement of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media, Preferential flow, Root water uptake.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Helmig
Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems (IWS)
Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems
University of Stuttgart, Germany
rainer.helmig@iws.uni-stuttgart.de
Research Areas: Groundwater hydrology, Multi-phase physics in porous media, Numerical modelling, Modelling and analysis of coupled processes between free flow and porous media flow.
Prof. Ryan T. Armstrong
University of New South Wales, Australia
Department of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering
ryan.armstrong@unsw.edu.au
Research Areas: Petrophysics and rock mechanics, Petroleum and reservoir engineering, Water resources engineering, Geophysical and environmental fluid flows
Prof. Dr. Shuyo Sun
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Shuyu Sun is a founding Professor of Earth Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computational and applied mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003. His research areas include computational modeling and simulation of multiphase flow and multicomponent transport in porous media from Darcy’s scales to the pore scales and molecular scales with applications in energy and environment. He has published 330+ refereed journal articles and numerous conference papers. Currently he is the president of InterPore (International Society for Porous Media) Saudi Chapter.
https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/shuyu-sun
https://ctpl.kaust.edu.sa/
Dorthe Wildenschild
School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Oregon State University, Oregon, USA
dorthe@engr.oregonstate.edu
Research Areas: multiphase flow and transport processes.
https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wildensd/dorthe.html https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wildensd/
Signe Kjelstrup, Professor emerita, Dr.Techn. et. Dr.-Ing.
PoreLab, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
My area of specialisation is non-equilibrium thermodynamics. With 4 books and about 400 publications we have contributed to theory development, in particular for interface transport, but also to applications in electrochemical and biological systems. Thermodynamics and transport in confined fluids is central.
https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/signe.kjelstrup
https://folk.ntnu.no/signekj/fra_nt/
Prof. em. Dr. Dani Or
ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science
Zürich, Switzerland
Research Areas: Mass and energy transport soils, Pore scale liquid flow and retention, Interfaces between pore scale physical processes and biological activity in soils.
https://usys.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.dani-or.html
Prof. Patrick Huber
Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) &
Photon Science Division of Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Hamburg, Germany
Patrick Huber has a diploma and PhD in physics from Saarland University, Saarbrücken (Germany). After academic stations in the Physics Departments at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA) and Pontificia Universidad Católica Santiago de Chile as well as the Biomaterials Department at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Germany), he joined Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) as a professor in Materials Physics and Technology in 2012. Since 2020 he heads as the founding director the Institute for Materials and X-ray Physics at TUHH and the research group on High-Resolution X-Ray Analytics of Materials in the Photon Science Division of Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY within a cooperative professorship between TUHH and DESY.
Research Areas: How condensed matter behaves in extreme spatial confinement, most prominently in nanoporous media, and on how to employ this fundamental knowledge for the design and fabrication of advanced and sustainable functional materials.
https://www.mxp.tuhh.de/index.php/en/
https://www.mxp.tuhh.de/index.php/en/group/2-patrick
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Huber_(Physiker)
Dr. Branko Bijeljic
Imperial College London
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering
London, UK
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/b.bijeljic
Research Areas: Pore-scale imaging and modelling, Reactive transport, Multiphase flow, Porous media
Many of these porous systems are extremely complex. The traditional concepts, models, and algorithms developed for porous media in the geosciences are not directly applicable and there is a very strong need for tailored models, and measurement techniques.
