Seunghee Kim is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), USA. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was an assistant professor at Western New England University, MA (2014 to 2016) and at UNL (2016 to 2023). His main research area includes the pore-scale study of reactive/multiphase fluid flow in porous media, hydro-chemo-thermo-mechanically coupled processes in Energy Geotechnics, and underground utilization. These topics tackle challenges for operations such as carbon utilization and geologic storage, compressed air energy storage (CAES), hydrogen storage, and nuclear waste disposal. He has four years of industry experience related to foundation design and the analysis of cut-slopes and tunnels.