Bohan started his Doctoral studies at TAMU in 2016. He obtained his BS in Civil Engineering from Shandong University, China. His MS.c. research was conducted under Dr. Sanchez's supervision, in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TAMU.

His previous investigations include: i) experimental and constitutive modeling of frozen soils subjected to cyclic freezing-thawing effects considering different loading histories and freezing temperatures; and ii) mechanical modeling of gas hydrate bearing sediments. In this project, he is mainly focused on the experimental behavior of gas migration phenomena through clay barrier materials.

Bohan developed and maintains this Website.

Ali has worked in Civil Engineering industry and academia for six years, ultimately gaining experience in supervision, designing, construction and management of engineering projects at a variety of levels. In academia, he takes pride in ensuring that his students, team members, and fellow researchers get the best of knowledge share. His goal as a team leader is to do capacity building of his team, consequently establishing long-term relationships with them.

Currently, as a Fulbright Doctoral student, in this NEUP project, he is mainly focused on experimental investigation on gas migration through the interfaces with considerations of dry densities, interface textures, temperatures, heterogeneity etc.

Specialties: Research and Development, Geo-technical Investigation, Laboratory apparatus design, Foundation, and Pile design, Slope stability analysis, Laboratory experimentation, Modelling and simulations, Field experimentation, Geophysical investigation.

Heber now is a PhD student in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TAMU. He obtained his BS degree in Civil Engineering and MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the São Paulo State University (Brasil).

During his MSc, he developed research on the area of numerical methods for coupled hydro-mechanical (HM) problems, working on the following topics: geomechanics of naturally fractured porous medium; discrete fracture models; fracture constitutive models; and interface finite element models.

In this project, his research topics covers: thermal, hydraulic and mechanical couplings; numerical modeling of gas migration on low permeability clays.

Abdulvahit started his MSc. at TAMU in Fall 2019. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Konya Technical University (Turkey) in 2017.

He is conducting hydro-mechanical tests on MX-80 bentonite.