Post Doctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow
xiao-long.wu@uoguelph.ca

Dr. Xiao-long Wu is a postdoctoral researcher who is passionate about the study of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupled processes in fractured and porous media, particularly under the influence of climate-driven pressures. His research provides critical insights into groundwater quality and quantity estimation, sustainable groundwater remediation, and the development of climate-resilient solutions, including geothermal exploitation and carbon sequestration. He works with a combination of hybrid mathematical and numerical modeling techniques, hydraulic test, and integral transforms, such as Fourier and Laplace transforms.

He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada, an M.Sc. in Environmental Process Engineering (WASTE) from the University of Stuttgart in Germany, and a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from Northwest A&F University in China. He is also committed to the groundwater community and actively participates in volunteer initiatives, including work with Hydrogeologists Without Borders and The Groundwater Project.

Postdoctoral Fellow
jflynn06@uoguelph.ca

Jessica is a professional geologist with over 15 years of experience in the environmental and oil and gas industries. She holds geoscience degrees from Brock University (B.Sc.), the University of Brighton (M.Sc.), and the University of Western Ontario (Ph.D). Her research applies interchangeable concepts in geological frameworks and controls inhibiting or promoting flow within sedimentary rock matrices to research in the fields of hydrogeology, petroleum geology, and critical mineral exploration. Using a high-resolution stratigraphic framework in conjunction with petrographic and organic geochemistry data, her PhD research shed light on the sedimentary response to tectonism in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin during the Late Cretaceous and provided essential context for predicting geographical, stratigraphic, and temporal limits of potential source rock facies in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In her professional career, Jessica focused on investigating petroleum systems within the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and the Williston Basin, as well as investigated controls on rare earth element and helium distribution within Phanerozoic rocks. In recent years she targeted her research efforts on studying reservoir characteristics and the caprock integrity of aquitards in support of regulatory reviews of CCUS projects within the province of Saskatchewan.