Yongfei Yang
National Chapter Steering Committee
IP Board Member
General Secretary
Yongfei Yang is a Professor of Reservoir Engineering at China University of Petroleum (East China) and Managing Director of International Joint Laboratory on Petroleum Energy. Yang received his Ph.D. from China University of Petroleum (East China) in 2010 and was a visiting Ph.D. researcher at Heriot-Watt University, UK, from 2008 to 2009.
Yang’s research focuses on digital rock physics, nano-/micro-scale fluid flow in porous media, pore-scale modelling, multiphase flow, and pore-network modelling. He has led one National Key R&D Program project and five NSFC projects, published more than 100 papers, including 11 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 3 Hot Papers, and holds an H-index of 53 with 9859 citations. He serves as Associate Editor of Petroleum Science and as an editorial board member of InterPore Journal, Petroleum Exploration and Development, and Geoenergy Science and Engineering.
Yang has been actively involved in InterPore for many years, serving as Secretary-General of the InterPore China Chapter, a member of the InterPore Foundation, and Chair of the InterPore Workshops Committee. In 2024, he chaired the Local Organizing Committee of the 16th InterPore Annual Meeting in Qingdao, the first InterPore Annual Meeting hosted in China, which attracted more than 850 participants. He received the InterPore Rosette Award in 2021 in recognition of his contributions to the InterPore community.