Overview

Dr. Awolayo’s group focuses on advancing fundamental knowledge of important physicochemical processes in environmental and energy subsurface systems and developing scalable, sustainable, and applied solutions to global climate change and challenges encountered at the water-energy-society nexus. Our group couples experimental, theoretical, numerical, and data-driven computational approaches to enhance the understanding of the fate and transport of fluids, and their geochemical reactions in subsurface environmental and energy systems. We explore challenges associated with physicochemical transport in natural and engineered systems and develop diagnostic tools to provide solution across multi-scales, pores to field. Our current work on sustainable energy transitions and climate change mitigation strategies, such as geo-energy (CO2 or hydrogen) storage, nuclear waste disposal, contaminant transport, geothermal energy production, etc. is to ensure that today’s children and future generations can continue to inhabit the Earth in light of the existential threat posed by climate change.