General Research Topics

• Shallow Geothermal
  - Numerical modeling of heat transfer between Borehole Heat Exchangers and surrounding subsurface

  - Analysis and optimization of long-term performance of Ground Source Heat Pump System (GSHP)
  - Application of shallow subsurface for thermal storage
  
  

• Deep Geothermal
  - Geothermal reservoir numerical model construction and analysis
  - Analysis of coupled processes in the vicinity of wellbore
  - Modelling partially saturated and multiphase flow process in the subsurface, with particular focus on the non-isothermal phase change behavior.
  - Scaling and corrosion issues in high-temperature geothermal reservoirs
  
  
• Reactive Transport Modeling
  - Numerical modeling of water-rock interactions
  - Geochemical processes under high temperature high pressure environment
  - Geochemically coupled processes in the context of nuclear waste repository
  
  
• Software Development
  

  - Implementation of relevant numerical schemes and features for the scientific software OpenGeoSys.
  

Current Research Projects

• ANGUS II
  
• EasyQuart
• EURAD-ACED
  

Featured Recent Publications
* Corresponding author

• Shuang Chen, Francesco Witte, Olaf Kolditz, Haibing Shao* (2020): Shifted thermal extraction rates in large Borehole Heat Exchanger array - a numerical experiment, Applied Thermal Engineering 162: 114750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114750

• Boyan Meng, Thomas Vienken, Olaf Kolditz, Haibing Shao* (2019): Evaluating the thermal impacts and sustainability of intensive shallow geothermal utilization on a neighborhood scale: Lessons learned from a case study, Energy Conversion and Management 199: 111913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.111913

• Yonghui Huang, Haibing Shao*, Erich Wieland, Olaf Kolditz, Georg Kosakowski (2018) A new approach to coupled two-phase reactive transport simulation for long-term degradation of concrete, Construction and Building Materials 190: 805-829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.09.114

• Renchao Lu, Thomas Nagel, Hua Shao, Olaf Kolditz, Haibing Shao (2018) Modeling of Dissolution‐Induced Permeability Evolution of a Granite Fracture Under Crustal Conditions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123(7): 5609-5627. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015702

• Philipp Hein, Ke Zhu, Anke Bucher, Olaf Kolditz, Zhonghe Pang, Haibing Shao* (2016) Quantification of exploitable shallow geothermal energy by using Borehole Heat Exchanger coupled Ground Source Heat Pump systems, Energy Conversion and Management 127: 80-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.08.097

Summary of publications and citations

ISI listed journal publications as of 07.2020: 43,
with 1062 citations and an h-index of 16
For the detailed publication list, please refer to my profile on the following websites:
ResearcherID, ResearchGate, ORCID

Teaching Experience

• Winter Semester 2014 - 2019
  Lecture, exercise and practice: Geoströmungsmodellierung (Geo-Fluid Modeling)
  3 SWS, TU Bergakamedie Freiberg (TUBAF)

• Winter Semester 2015 - 2019
  Lecture: Hydrogeological Flow and Transport Modelling for GW-Management
  4 SWS together with Dr. Nils Hothe, TU Bergakamedie Freiberg (TUBAF)

Career

since 08.2018
Staff Scientist (Tenure-Track), Group Leader
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany;

05.2014 -04.2020
W1-Junior Professor “Geothermal System Analysis”
in the Faculty of Geoscience, Geotechnics and Mining,
TU Bergakamedie Freiberg (TUBAF)

04.2010 – 10.2010
Earth Science Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.,
visiting researcher on the topic of numerical modeling of CO2 geological sequestration process.

08.2009 - 07.2018
PostDoc Research Assistant, Staff Scientist.
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany;

Education

PhD: 06.2007 – 07.2010
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden)
Grade: magna cum laude (sehr gut)

Master: 09.2005 – 05.2007
Applied Environmental Geosciences,
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
Grade: 1.2/5 (excellent)

Bachelor: 09. 2001 – 08. 2005
Environmental Engineering,
Tongji University, Shanghai, China