Yashar Mehmani is an assistant professor in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME) at Penn State. He is also a co-funded faculty in the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE). His research interests are broadly related to porous media flow and mechanics with a special focus on computing and scale translation. He is particularly interested in how microscale physics affect macroscopic observations and how predictive tools based on such knowledge can be built. Applications that motivate his research relate to sustainability aspects of subsurface energy production, groundwater contamination, and renewables. He did his undergraduate years at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, followed by a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. He was then a postdoctoral fellow and later a research associate at the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University.
This faculty member is associated with the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) where a multitude of perspectives and cross-disciplinary collaboration within research is highly valued. Graduate students in the IGDP in MatSE may work with faculty members from across Penn State.
- NSF CAREER award