Zhan, Hongbin Holder of Endowed Dudley J. Hughes '51 Chair in Geology and Geophysics

Dr. Hongbin Zhan is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Professor of Water Management and Hydrological Science, and Professor of the Energy Institute at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He is the Holder of the Endowed Dudley J. Hughes Chair in Geology and Geophysics at TAMU. His teaching and research interests are in fundamental processes of groundwater hydrology, chemical and heat transport in geological formations and their applications in water resources and geothermal resource management, and geological, environmental, and petroleum engineering. He has published more than 347 peer-reviewed articles in his specialty, with a Google Scholar citation of 8411 and an H-index of 50. He has graduated 57 graduate students (39 PhD and 18 MS) and has supervised 25 visiting scholars and postdoctoral scientists. He has served in many national and international committees and panels, such as the US DOE Subsurface Biogeochemical Research (SBR) program; AAAS Research Competitiveness Program; US DOD/EPA/DOE Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Institute for Regulatory Science (RSI) peer review board. Dr. Zhan is a Distinguished Chang-Jiang Scholar from the Ministry of Education of China. He was the Montague Scholar from the Center for Teaching Excellence at TAMU (1999), the Fred Burggraf Award recipient (2004) for recognition of excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger from the Transportation Research Board (TRB), administrated by the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering & Medicine. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Faculty Teaching (2009) and the Distinguished Achievement Award in Faculty Research (2016) from the College of Geosciences at TAMU. He is the only Professor from the College of Geosciences at TAMU who received both the Distinguished Achievement Award in Faculty Teaching and Faculty Research. He also received the Distinguished Overseas Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2004), was an elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (2006), a recipient of Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union (2020), and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2023).