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Q & A with WLA

Q: What is your early inspiration of doing science?
A: I hope to explore the nature hidden behind complex phenomena and develop engineering science for innovation energy technology.

Q: Do you have any scientific hero(es)? If so, how did he/she inspire you? 
A: I admire my doctoral supervisor, who is modest, rigorous and innovative.

Q: What is the best advice that you have received?
A: Accurate experimental data is as valuable as gold.

Q: What is your greatest achievement so far?
A: To address climate change, I has been working on low carbon and carbon neutral technology more than 10 years, such as carbon CO2 capture and Utilization and geological Storage (CCUS), CO2 enhanced unconventional gas/oil exploitation, and next generation of solar-thermal and geothermal systems. Moreover, my group is the key technical supporter for the CCUS demonstration project in China, as well as providing test platforms for CCS projects in UK, Canada and France.

Q: What is your research goal?
A: My research aims at providing answers to fundamental questions on the dynamics of multi-phase flow, heat and mass transfer in micro-/nano-scale porous network, which is a frontier scientific problem in the field of engineering thermophysics all of the world. Answers to these basic research questions are applicable to practical problems in low carbon and carbon neutral technology for addressing climate change all over the world.

Q: What is the best part of your job?
A: In the past several years, state-of-the-art in-situ high pressure visualization experiments and numerical models from atom-, molecular-, pore-, core-scale to field scale were developed in my lab. These experimental platform and modelling help me to explore the nature hidden behind complex phenomena and develop engineering science for innovation energy technology.