Yun Yang

Yun Yang is an Assistant Research Professional in the Center for Economic Geology Research and the School of Energy Resources. 

Yang earned her undergraduate degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa. She then earned both her master’s and doctoral degrees in energy and mineral engineering from Penn State University.

Yang worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on multi-scale feasibility study of underground hydrogen storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, and carbon dioxide (CO₂) mineral storage in mafic and ultramafic rocks. She also completed her first postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary, Canada, where she served as a team lead for a field-scale injection project. Her primary duties involved designing and optimizing the injection sequence to maximize CO₂ capacity in deep, unmineable coal seams.

Her scholarship has included experimental modeling in gas adsorption and diffusion to enhance unconventional gas recovery as well as multiphase flow in porous media with a special focus on the sorption kinetics in unconventional reservoirs and the potential application to carbon sequestration.