Fengshou Zhang is a distinguished professor in the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University. He received his PhD in geosystems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012, MS in tunneling and underground engineering, and BS in civil engineering from Tongji University in 2007, 2004, respectively.

From 2012-2016, he was a full time geomechanics engineer in the Houston office of Itasca Consulting Group Inc. His main job at Itasca was to provide consulting service, mainly the modeling of hydraulic fracturing and coupled processes of fractured rock masses, to many large oil and gas operators with applications to major unconventional plays in the North America, among them, Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania, Bakken shale in North Dakota, Permian and Eagle Ford shales in Texas and Horn River shale in Canada.

He returned to Tongji University as a professor of rock mechanics in 2016 and was promoted to a distinguished professor in 2021. His current research interests are in the areas of THMC coupling of subsurface, with applications to shale gas recovery, geothermal exploitation, CO2 sequestration and underground energy storage. He published more than 190 papers in PRL, GRL, JGR-Solid Earth etc., and won the ARMA Early Career Award in 2018, the first Qian Qihu Award in 2020, the China Youth Science and Technology Award in 2022, the Tencent CarbonX Award in 2023, and the ARMA Rock Mechanics Research Award in 2023. He also served as the first Executive Editor-in-Chief of Rock Mechanics Bulletin, an official flagship journal of CSRME.

He is a Vice President at Large ISRM.

Tentative title of lecture: CO2 sequestration and mineralization in basalts in Eastern China: prospects, constraints and challenges