Dr. Xiang-Zhao Kong

Dr. Xiangzhao Kong is a senior research associate in Geothermal Energy and Geofluids. After receiving his Bachelor and Master degrees in Thermal Science & Energy Engineering at the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei, China, he earned his doctorate in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kinzelbach in Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich. In 2011, he was awarded ETH medal for his PhD dissertation. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Then he joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland as a Research Fellow (Level B) in Brisbane, Australia. In 2015, he moved back to Zurich and joined the Institute of geophysics in ETH Zurich.

Research Interests

• Flow and transport processes in saturated and unsaturated porous media
• Reactive transport modeling in porous media
• Geothermal Energy
• Upscaling flow and transport parameters in fractured formations
• Granular flow

Publications

Google Scholar Citations:
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