Xiaojin Zheng

Coastal and Useable Space Geotechnical Engineering Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Parallel and Distributed Computing Underground Engineering Climate and Environment Renewable Energy and Sustainability Polymers and Plastics Geotechnics Clay Minerals Flow in Porous Media Geo-energy Dr. Zheng’s research focuses on the fundamental and applied understanding of geomaterials in the Earth’s subsurface, including rocks, minerals, soils, sediments, faults, and other porous or fractured media. His work spans multiple length scales to address pressing challenges in sustainable environmental and energy geotechnics, such as waste containment, contaminant sequestration, radioactive waste isolation, underground engineering, carbon geologic storage, and clay-based functional materials.