Prof. Dr. Zhenxue Dai is a Professor at the College of Construction Engineering of Jilin University and a fellow of the Geological Society of America, GSA Fellow since 2010. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Hydrogeology from Changchun University of Geology, his Master’s degree in Hydrogeology from Central Coal Mining Research Institute of China, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of A Coruña. He has been awarded the Excellent Organizer of the Brown Bag Seminar Series by Los Alamos Awards Program in 2009 and the Superior Performance and Teamwork Awards by Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2012. His research interests mainly include uncertainty quantification, coupled simulation of heat transfer, geochemical reactions in heterogeneous media, upscaling flow and reactive transport parameters, etc.