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Prof. Liwei Zhang's research has been focused on experimental and numerical studies on reactive transport of fluid in porous media and mineral dissolution/precipitation processes. Specific research areas include subsurface mineral dissolution and precipitation under geologic carbon storage conditions, leaching behavior of metal ions from ores and fly ash under high concentration CO2, and evolution of pore structure of wellbore cement under corrosive environment. During his research associate appointment at National Energy Technology Laboratory, he participated in 4 U.S. DOE and U.S. DOI research projects related to reactive transport and the total award of those projects was about 3 million USD. He participated in developing NRAP Toolset (a numerical code for use in performance evaluation and quantitative risk assessment of geologic storage of CO2), which won 2017 "R&D 100" award. In July 2017, he was recruited by Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics (IRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences as a full professor and was awarded a seed research funding of 5 million RMB (equivalent to $752,000 USD) to build his own laboratory. His research activities have resulted in 5 book chapters and more than 50 journal articles and conference proceedings.