Dr Lee Hosking
Senior Lecturer in Energy Geomechanics

Summary

Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Geomechanics and Senior Tutor for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on numerical modelling of subsurface environments. His models are able to predict heat and multiphase mass transfer, deformation and damage, and chemical interactions in geomaterials ranging from soils to fractured rock.

For over 10 years, the main practical application of his research has been geological CO₂ storage with respect to storage capacity, injectivity, and migration/confinement. He has also worked on unconventional geothermal energy systems. Alongside his research, Lee teaches energy infrastructure engineering and climate change science and technology, and is Course Director for BEng/MEng Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering).

Before joining Brunel in 2020, Lee was a postdoctoral researcher at the Geoenvironmental Research Centre, Cardiff University, where he performed research on CO₂ storage as part of the FLEXIS energy systems research project. He received his PhD from Cardiff University in 2014 for research on coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical behaviour during CO₂ injection in coalbeds, having graduated with an MEng Civil Engineering, also from Cardiff University.

Lee's research has been funded by The Royal Society, the Engineering and Physcial Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the UK CO₂ Capture and Storage Research Community (UKCCSRC). These projects have investigated key aspects of CO₂ storage linked with injection well integrity and the prediction and management of fluid injection-induced seismicity, and are being delivered alongside his partners across academia and industry.

His professional affiliations include Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and memberships of the Editorial Board for the journal Deep Underground Science and Engineering, the UKCCSRC, British Geotechnical Association, and International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. Within Brunel's research environment, he is part of the Centre for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Technologies as well as the Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer and Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering research groups.

Lee is always looking for talented and motivated PhD students as well as new collaborators for research projects.

Qualifications

• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2022
• PhD in Geoenvironmental Engineering, Cardiff University, 2014
• MEng Civil Engineering (First Class Hons), Cardiff University, 2010

Responsibility

• Senior Tutor (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
• Chair of the Exceptional Circumstances (EC) Panel
• NSS Champion
• Digital Education Champion