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Xiang-Zhao Kong is a lecturer at ETH Zurich in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, specializing in geothermal energy and geofluids. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Thermal Science & Energy Engineering from the University of Science & Technology of China. In 2010, he completed his doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kinzelbach in Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich, where he was awarded the ETH medal for his PhD dissertation. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Minnesota. From there, he joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia as a Research Fellow before returning to Zurich in 2015 to continue his work at the ETH Zurich Institute of Geophysics. His research interests include flow transport processes in saturated and unsaturated porous media, reactive transport modeling in porous media, geothermal energy, and upscaling flow transport parameters in fractured formations. He teaches courses related to hydrogeology and geofluids.
School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland • Brisbane, Australia
Worked on research related to civil engineering and geofluids.
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota • Minnesota, USA
Conducted postdoctoral research in earth sciences, focusing on geothermal energy and fluid dynamics.
ETH Zurich • Zürich, Switzerland
Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on geofluids and related subjects.
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