Ruishu F. Wright

Ruishu Wright received the B.S. degree in metallurgical science and engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2009, the M.S. degree in chemical engineering and technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in energy and mineral engineering and electrochemical science and engineering with Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, in 2016. She is a Research Physical Scientist with the Functional Materials Team, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She serves as a Technical Portfolio Lead for Natural Gas Infrastructure Field Work Proposal (FWP) and a Principal Investigator for multiple projects and coordinates research and development efforts of an interdisciplinary team to develop real-time sensors and functional sensitive materials to monitor and mitigate corrosion and gas leaks of natural gas pipelines, and enable subsurface geochemical monitoring in support of subsurface hydrogen-natural gas storage, wellbore integrity monitoring of carbon storage wells, and plugging abandoned wells. Her expertise lies in advanced sensors development for structural health monitoring and environmental detection for energy infrastructure using distributed and nondestructive sensor technologies to ensure safe, reliable, and resilient infrastructure for, among other things, natural gas and hydrogen transportation, subsurface wellbores, CO2 storage systems, and plugged abandoned wells. She has extensive experience in the design and development of functional materials (e.g., metallic thin films, metal oxides, and nanomaterials) to enable various sensor platforms. She also has strong expertise in corrosion and materials degradation in natural gas pipelines and in deep wells with extreme conditions, such as high-temperature, high-pressure (HTHP) environments. She has published more than 40 technical articles and given more than 30 presentations at conferences and holds five pending and awarded U.S. patents on sensor technologies.