New Members to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee

The purpose of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is to ensure that the InterPore community harnesses the talent and knowledge from the widest possible pool of talent for the benefit of the porous media science and engineering. We believe it is necessary to leverage the vast breadth of human experience to find solutions that prevent the worst impacts of climate change and to create adaptive methods for the impacts we are already experiencing. The activities we are currently planning include promoting practices that make the InterPore environment such that every person fells valued, confident and excited to share their scientific achievements.

Below we introduce all of the inaugural members of the committee:

	Chair: Tiina Roose (Estonia/UK) is a Professor of Biological and Environmental Modelling at the University of Southampton. Originally from Estonia where she did her undergraduate in systems engineering, she was trained as an applied mathematician in Oxford, first receiving her MSc and then DPhil/PhD at the Mathematical Institute. The aim of her work is to develop better mathematical models to describe how plants and soil interact, especially focusing on food security. This work, in addition to developing mathematical analysis tools, also involves experiments using X-ray based techniques (XCT, XRF, XANES) and microdialysis soil solutions sampling to parameterise and validate the models.
	Maartje Boon (Netherlands) received a MSc in Hydrogeology from Utrecht University back in 2006. After her graduation, she moved to Greece, the USA, and the United Kingdom, and became a full-time mother of three children. In 2013 she was offered a PhD position at Imperial College which focussed on solute spreading and mixing in porous media. She earned her PhD in 2017 after which she moved to Stanford for a postdoc focussing on the impact of rock-structure heterogeneity on multi-phase flow properties and its implications for geological carbon sequestration. She is currently leading the ADMIRE Hydrogen Lab at TU Delft where the focus of her research is underground hydrogen storage.
	Rachida Bouhlila (Tunisia) is a graduate engineer from ENIT. She received her PhD in mechanics, option porous media, and is a graduate engineer from ENIT. She received her PhD in mechanics, option porous media, from INP Toulouse in 1984 and her “Doctorat d’état es-sciences” in hydraulic sciences from ENIT in 1999. She is currently a professor at ENIT and researcher at the National Engineering School of Tunisia, where she teaches hydraulics, hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry and transfers in porous media. Her research interests include density-dependent flows and reactive transfers in saturated-unsaturated porous media, hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry. She is the author of more than 140 scientific publications and has supervised more than 20 PhDs, and 80 MSc theses.
	Anna Herring (US/Australia) works on advancing technologies used to fight climate change: storing carbon dioxide in permeable underground geologic formations and in solid minerals that can be used in construction applications. Her research is largely experimental, and utilizes highly-resolved X-ray tomography visualization of fluid flows (in gas, liquid, and supercritical phases) within permeable media, quantified via image processing and topological data analysis.
	Talita Rosas Ferreira (Brazil) is a researcher at the micro- and nanotomography beamline, Mogno, at the 4thgeneration Sirius Synchrotron, at the Brazilian Centre for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), located in Campinas. During her MSc and PhD in Physics at the State University of Ponta Grossa (Brazil), she studied physical properties of soils using laboratory experiments, imaging and associated image analyses. Currently, she focuses on using the main capabilities of the Mogno to tackle issues related to soils water movement, root growth, and physical structure of micro- and nanopores.
	Yuhang Wang (China/Netherlands) is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Delft University of Technology. He received a PhD degree from University of Wyoming in 2020. Prior to this, he completed his MSc degree at the University of Tulsa, and a BSc degree from China University of Petroleum-Beijing. His primary research interest is in the area of flow through permeable media relevant to subsurface geological systems. The aim of his work is to propose meaningful mathematical models which capture the underlying physics of the processes at work and to develop reliable and robust numerical frameworks to investigate the dynamics of flow across scales.