PhD Students
Mr. Gajanan Karunakaran
Postgraduate Student
Email: Gajanan.Karunakaran@monash.edu
Phone: +61 456830728
Office: Room 127, Building 37, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Efficient technique for CH4-CO2 exchange in natural gas hydrates
Ms. Gayani Piyumika Perera
Postgraduate Student
Email: Gayani.MirisArachchige@monash.edu
Phone: +61 459088674
Office: Room 113, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Development of a sustainable waste- based cement for ultra high strength applications
Ms. Isuri Aloka Rathnayaka
Postgraduate Student
Email: isuri.rathnayakage@monash.edu
Phone: + 61 456 265 199
Office: Room 113, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS)
Mr. Tharindu Theekshana Kannangara
Postgraduate Student
Email: Tharindu.Kannangara@monash.edu
Phone: +61 455634109
Office: Room 114, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Slow Release Energy Material Agent (SREMA) for sustainable mineral recoveries
Ms. F.S.A. Ansar
Postgraduate Student
Email: fathima.alahudeenansar@monash.edu
Phone:
Office: Room 114, Building 36, Clayton Campu
Research Interest:
CO2 utilization and mineralization in mine tailing to produce value-added products
Ms. Yutong Gui
Postgraduate Student
Email: Yutong.Gui@monash.edu
Phone: +86 13348696121
Office: Room 101, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Development of High Energy SREMA (Slow releasing Energy material agent) for future energy transition minerals extraction
Mr. Guoyan Li
Postgraduate Student
Email: Guoyan.Li@monash.edu
Phone: +61 0466988212
Office: Room 1.07, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Geochemical and geomechanical studies in carbon sequestration
Mr. Chamith Beddage
Postgraduate Student
Email: chamith.beddage@monash.edu
Phone: +61 448266874
Office: Room 107, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
AI-Powered Breakthroughs: Energy through Advanced Rock Fracturing for Geothermal Heat Recovery
Ms. Salmi Sikurajapathi
Postgraduate Student
Email: salmi.sikurajapathi@monash.edu
Phone: +61 417486168
Office: Room 107, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
CO2 as a Resource: Innovations in Storage and Utilization
Mr. Nadun Bimsara
Postgraduate Student
Email: Nadun.Bimsara@monash.edu
Phone: +61 484 957 500
Office: Room 127, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Advancing Geothermal Energy: Developing Next-Generation Systems for Sustainable and Clean Power Generation.
Ms. Sasandi Chandeepa Muhandiram
Postgraduate Student
Email: sasandi.muhandiram@monash.edu
Phone: +61 499483080
Office: Room 217, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Eco-friendly hydrogen production techniques through ultramafic rock serpentinization in geothermal settings.
Ms. Zhen Peng
Postgraduate Student
Email: Zhen.Peng@monash.edu
Phone: +61 0405611790
Office: Room 101, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Hydrogen storage.
Mr. Hailong Song
Postgraduate Student
Email: Hailong.Song@monash.edu
Phone: +61 0478291085
Office: Room 314, Building 94, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Exploring CO₂ sequestration in coal seams, linking carbon storage with coal mine safety and energy applications.
Ms. Shaily Sumanasekera
Postgraduate Student
Email: shaily.sumanasekera@monash.edu
Phone: +61 433680700
Office: Room 101, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Non-Newtonian CO₂ Foam Flow and Fracture Evolution in High- Temperature Geothermal Reservoirs.
Visiting PhD Students
Ms. Chaoran Shi
Visiting Master Student
Email: Shicr2004@gmail.com
Phone: +61 0489 153 513
Office:
Research Interest:
Penetration performance prediction and parameter optimization of tunnel boring machine based on machine learning
Ms. Shuangxia Zhang
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email: Shuangxia.Zhang@monash.edu
Phone: +61 466 707 865
Office: Room 101, Building 36, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
High-temperature rock fracture mechanisms under coupled static and dynamic loading.
Mr. Shubham Kumar
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email: shubham.kumar@monash.edu kumarshubham0048@gmail.com
Phone: +91 9382806364 +61 433920386
Office: 314/15, 3rd Floor, Woodside Building, Clayton Campus
Research Interest:
Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS), Carbon Mineralization, Enhanced Coal bed Methane (ECBM), and Shale Gas recovery.
Mr. Menglong Peng
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email: pengml@tongji.edu.cn
Phone:
Research Interest:
Constitutive models of rocks and the analysis and control of tunnel excavation disturbances
Mr. Zheng Yang
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email: zhengyang.yz@outlook.com; zheng.yang@monash.edu
Phone: +61 0478249017; +86 18202792066
Research Interest:
Rock engineering; Computational mechanics; Multiscale and multiphysics modeling; Rock breakage; Induced seismicity
Mr. Ziyuan Cong
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email: Ziyuan.Cong@monash.edu
Phone: +61 0478251295
Research Interest:
Rock Mechanics; Hydraulic Fracturing; Numerical simulation.
Mr. Yunfeng Xu
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email:yunfeng.xu@monash.edu
Phone: +61 04667908828
Research Interest:
CCUS; Reservoir numerical simulation; Data-driven models and artificial intelligence algorithm.
Ms. Yu Zhao
Visiting Postgraduate Student
Email: Yu.Zhao@monash.edu
Phone: +61 466129648
Research Interest:
CO2 Enhanced coalbed methane (CO2-ECBM), Boundary element method program development, Inverse problem.