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About Me

Text Box: I am a Senior lecturer (equivalent to associate professor) focusing on Multi-scale imaging and characterization of rocks (Digital rocks) in geoenergy reservoirs and subsurface energy storage. I am the Academic lead/co-chair of Women@manchester staff network (with ~900 members), and facluty head of internationalisation for student recruitement at the university, and leading on subsurface energy and storage at University of Manchester at Harwell. I also hold external roles as Deputy-editor-in-chief for the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology and Vice Chair of the Enery Group, The Geological Society. My current research aims to build novel and advanced 3D/4D digital approaches and correlative experiments to fully understand the complicated pore networks and the reactions of subsurface energy (e.g. natural gas, geothermal, hydrogen and CO2) with rocks under subsurface conditions (e.g. temperature, pressure, and chemistry) cross multiple scales (nm to cm). Machine learning tools and image based modeling are applied for enhanced understanding of these topics. My research aims to achieve the goal of enabling economic growth and environment protection via applications of clean energy extraction and subsurface energy storage. A person wearing glasses and a white jacket AI-generated content may be incorrect.

 

I have secured > £3 million grant as PI and participated in > £10 million pounds project as a co-I/WP leads from both UKRI and industries in the last seven years. These project covers a wide range of topics including shale gas, carbon storage, geothermal and aquifer heat storage, underground hydrogen storage, nuclear waste disposal, using multi-scale, multi-dimensional, multi-model and machine learning assisted imaging and characterisation. 

Additionally, I lead >25 fully funded synchrotron beamtime sessions (>100 days) as PI and another >10 sessions (> 40 days) as co-I , at national and international synchrotron facilities including Diamond Light Source (DLS), Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), DESY Photon Science, The Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNSL) and The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) to develop new in-situ imaging capacity in varied applications in energy decarbonation field.

 

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 Multi-scale Imaging and Characterisation

 

Research interest:

·               Multi-scale characterisation (3D)

·               Pore quantification and upscaling

·               Dynamic imaging (4D)

·               Image and image-based modelling

·               Fracturing and flow behaviours

Research applications:

·      Hydrocarbon reservoirs

·      Subsurface gas storage

·      Carbon sequestration and storage

·      Geothermal and subsurface heat storage

·      Nuclear waste disposal

Contact:   Lin.ma@manchester.ac.uk