School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
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Jaewoo An
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCoupling of geomechanics and reservoir simulation
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Folasade Ayoola
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDeep decarbonization of large-scale energy systems, exploring low-carbon transition pathway alternatives for oil-dependent countries, with a focus on Nigeria.
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Inês Azevedo
Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Azevedo is passionate about solving problems that include environmental, technical, economic, and policy issues, where traditional engineering approaches play an important role but cannot provide a complete answer. In particular, she is interested in assessing how energy systems are likely to evolve, which requires comprehensive knowledge of the technologies that can address future energy needs and the decision-making process followed by various agents in the economy.
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Khalid Aziz
Otto N. Miller Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOptimization and reservoir Simulation.
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Ilenia Battiato
Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEnergy and environment (battery systems; superhydrophobicity and drag reduction; carbon sequestration); multiscale, mesoscale and hybrid simulations (multiphase and reactive transport processes); effective medium theories; perturbation methods, homogenization and upscaling.
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Sally Benson
Precourt Family Professor, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research is focused on reducing the risks of climate change by developing energy supplies with low carbon emissions. Students and post-doctoral fellows in my research group work on carbon dioxide storage, energy systems analysis, and pathways for transitioning to a low-carbon energy system.
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Adam Brandt
Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGreenhouse gas emissions, energy systems optimization, mathematical modeling of resource depletion, life cycle analysis
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Cerise Burns
Program Coordinator, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordAdministrative Associate III in Energy Resources Engineering
Assisting Stanford Center for Carbon Capture, Women in Data Science, SUPRI-B Reservoir Simulation group and Smart Fields Consortium group
Event planning, website editor
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David Danielson
Adjunct Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
BioDavid T. Danielson became a Precourt energy scholar at Stanford in 2016. With Stuart Macmillan and Joel Moxley, Dave co-teaches the yearlong course "Energy Transformation Collaborative." This project-based course provides a launchpad for the creation and development of transformational energy ventures. Interdisciplinary student teams research, analyze and refine detailed plans for high-impact opportunities in the context of the new energy venture development framework offered in this course.
Since January 2017, Dave has been managing director of Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.
From 2012 to 2016, Dave was assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. There, he directed the U.S. government’s innovation strategy in the areas of sustainable transportation, renewable power, energy efficiency and clean-energy manufacturing, investing about $2 billion annually into American clean-energy innovation. He is considered a global expert in the development of next generation clean-energy technologies and the creation of new R&D and organizational models for high-impact clean energy innovation.
Prior to being appointed by President Obama as assistant secretary, Dave was the first hire at DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency– Energy (ARPA-E), a funding agency that focuses on the development of high-risk, high-reward clean-energy technologies. Prior to his government service, he was a clean-energy venture capitalist and, as a PhD student at MIT, was the founder and president of the MIT Energy Club. -
John Steven Davis
Affiliate, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - SUPRI-C
BioSteve is a research affiliate with the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS). In the Stanford SCCS he is collaborating with Sally Benson's group on development of site selection criteria and risking/ranking methods to improve identification and assessment of potential geologic carbon dioxide storage sites.
Steve has more than 22 years experience at Exxon Mobil in the geosciences. While at Exxon Mobil Steve's research and applications spanned a wide spectrum of disciplines including fault and top seal analysis (as the corporate discipline expert), geologic and engineering risking methodologies, technical software development, seismic structural interpretation techniques and workflows, and pore-scale capillary processes in tight reservoirs. During his time at Exxon Mobil Steve was involved in multiple cross-disciplinary geoscience and engineering research collaboratives with universities and government research organizations.
Prior to his time at Exxon Mobil Steve spent more than 5 years in the geotechnical engineering field. In this role Steve was responsible for designing and completing geotechnical engineering testing and analysis programs on an extremely broad range of construction projects. His work spanned everything from field evaluation to rock and soil mechanics to engineering analysis to design recommendations.
Steve holds a PhD from the U. of California, Davis (structural geology and tectonics), an MS from the U. of Montana, and a BS from U. of California, Santa Cruz. Steve has published his work in a wide range of peer-reviewed geoscience and engineering journals with topics including structural analysis, tectonics, pore-scale capillary flow modeling, basin modeling, natural rock fractures, and fault seal analysis. -
Jacques de Chalendar
Adjunct Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
BioI am Adjunct Professor and Visiting Scholar in the Energy Resources Engineering department at Stanford University. I was previously a doctoral candidate in the same department, advised by Profs. Sally Benson and Peter Glynn. I am also an Ingénieur Polytechnicien from the French Ecole Polytechnique (X2011).
My research focuses on building state-of-the-art computational tools for energy and carbon management problems. See http://web.stanford.edu/~jdechale/ for more. -
Ricardo Huntemann Deucher
Ph.D. Student in Petroleum Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests are on reservoir simulation and modeling of reactive flow in porous media. More specifically, I am working on adaptive and multiscale solution strategies for single and two-phase reactive flow problems.
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Louis Durlofsky
Otto N. Miller Professor in the School of Earth Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGeneral reservoir simulation, optimization, reduced-order modeling, upscaling, flow in fractured systems, history matching, CO2 sequestration, energy systems optimization
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Sahar El Abbadi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy Resources Engineering
BioSahar El Abbadi is a post-doctoral researcher in Energy Resources Engineering. Her research focuses on developing circular economies by transforming waste methane into useful products. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted atmosphere by industrial sources (wastewater treatment plants, landfill, fossil fuel extraction) because it is uneconomical to capture, clean and use. However, methane-consuming bacteria can transform this harmful pollutant into protein-rich cells and biodegradable polymers. Sahar's PhD research evaluated the economic potential of using these bacteria to reduce methane emissions while providing a new source of high-quality protein that can be used as a feed for agriculture and aquaculture. Sahar continues to expand on this work in considering the path to industrialization in both the United States and Bangladesh using methane produced at landfills. Sahar completed her Bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley (2012) in Environmental Engineering Science, and her MS (2015) and PhD (2021) in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford.
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Josue Fonseca
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioI consider myself a pragmatic, easy-going, and technical persona. I am always trying to be with good humor, which helps to reduce natural aging. My goal is to understand energy resources in order to use technical concepts when harvesting them for human development.
My academic background is in physics, with B.Sc., and M.Sc. degrees from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - Brazil. Before I start my Ph.D. program, I have worked for 9 years in the petroleum industry at Petrobras. At that time, my job encompassed a variety of quantitative methods applied to geosciences, such as rock physics, seismic reservoir characterization, geomodeling applications, quantitative seismic interpretation, and geologic velocity model building.
As a geophysicist and researcher, my main objective is to combine concepts from several disciplines and data from different sources to extract valuable information about the Earth's subsurface. I am a firm believer that this sort of integration must be achieved by means of computational models along with geological expertise. Moreover, uncertainty quantification is required to fully characterize the output of any built model which mimics the subsurface. Therefore, I focus on evaluating interdisciplinary workflows that forecast rock properties in addition to its uncertainty quantification. -
Cedric Fraces
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioPhD candidate in Energy Resources Engineering with over 10 years of experience in the Energy industry. Covered a variety of roles from field engineering to project management in consulting, service and operating companies. Worked on major oilfields in China, Iraq, Kuwait, Mexico, Colombia and interacted with top executives in corresponding National Oil Companies.
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Laura Frouté
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLaura is a PhD candidate at Stanford University. Her research focuses on understanding fluid transport in shale by imaging, reconstructing and analyzing the rock fabric at nanometer scales. Her interests range from oil & gas engineering, fluid flow in porous media, to environmental and regulatory issues in the oil & gas industry, CCUS, and energy policy.
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Margot Gerritsen
Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch
My work is about understanding and simulating complicated fluid flow problems. My research focuses on the design of highly accurate and efficient parallel computational methods to predict the performance of enhanced oil recovery methods. I'm particularly interested in gas injection and in-situ combustion processes. These recovery methods are extremely challenging to simulate because of the very strong nonlinearities in the governing equations. Outside petroleum engineering, I'm active in coastal ocean simulation with colleagues from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, yacht research and pterosaur flight mechanics with colleagues from the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, and the design of search algorithms in collaboration with the Library of Congress and colleagues from the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering.
Teaching
I teach courses in both energy related topics (reservoir simulation, energy, and the environment) in my department, and mathematics for engineers through the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME). I also initiated two courses in professional development in our department (presentation skills and teaching assistant training), and a consulting course for graduate students in ICME, which offers expertise in computational methods to the Stanford community and selected industries.
Professional Activities
Senior Associate Dean, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford (from 2015); Director, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford (from 2010); Stanford Fellow (2010-2012); Magne Espedal Professor II, Bergen University (2011-2014); Aldo Leopold Fellow (2009); Chair, SIAM Activity group in Geosciences (2007, present, reelected in 2009); Faculty Research Fellow, Clayman Institute (2008); Elected to Council of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2007); organizing committee, 2008 Gordon Conference on Flow in Porous Media; producer, Smart Energy podcast channel; Director, Stanford Yacht Research; Co-director and founder, Stanford Center of Excellence for Computational Algorithms in Digital Stewardship; Editor, Journal of Small Craft Technology; Associate editor, Transport in Porous Media; Reviewer for various journals and organizations including SPE, DoE, NSF, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Scientific Computing, Transport in Porous Media, Computational Geosciences; member, SIAM, SPE, KIVI, AGU, and APS -
Stephan Graham
Transition Vice-Dean, Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Welton Joseph and Maud L¿Anphere Crook Professor of Applied Earth Sciences & by courtesy, of Geophysics & of Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSedimentary basin analysis; petroleum geology
