School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
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Esuru Okoroafor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Resources Engineering
BioRita Esuru Okoroafor is currently a Graduate student at the Energy Resources Engineering Department. She is interested in coupling Geomechanics with Reservoir Engineering of Enhanced Geothemal Systems.
Prior to the graduate program, she has worked with Schlumberger for over 12 years. Most of her work experience has been on the fields in the Gulf of Guinea. She has held the positions of Borehole Reservoir Engineer, Reservoir and Production Engineering Team Lead, Sales Manager, Reservoir Domain Champion and Real Time Productivity Steering Product Analyst.
Her technical roles resulted in extensive experience on Formation Testing, Petrophysics, Well Testing, Production Logging, Well Integrity and Single Well Simulation and Production Forecasting, from which she has ten technical papers published, one granted patent and one patent application.
Her non-technical roles gave her an opportunity to develop skills in leadership, communication, presentation and customer relationship management.
Since 2005, Rita has been an active volunteer with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), holding leadership and committee member positions, locally, regionally and internationally.
Her other interest includes writing and she is the author of the fiction novels "Against The Perfect Will" and "Morning Does Come". -
Simona Onori
Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsModeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems;
Model-based control in advanced propulsion systems;
Energy management control and optimization in HEVs and PHEVs;
Energy storage systems- Li-ion and PbA batteries, Supercapacitors;
Battery aging modeling, state of health estimation and life prediction for control;
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Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr.
Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor in Petroleum Engineering, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch
My students and I work to understand the physical mechanisms that control flow of multiphase, multicomponent fluids in the subsurface, using a combination of experiments and theory. The theory part includes numerical simulation of flow in heterogeneous porous rocks and coalbeds, often using streamline approaches, and it also involves solving by analytical methods the differential equations that describe the interactions of complex phase equilibrium and flow (porous rocks containing more than one flowing phase can sometimes act like a chromatograph, separating components as they flow). The experiments are used to test how well the models describe reality. Applications of this work range from enhanced oil and gas recovery to geologic storage of carbon dioxide (to reduce greenhouse gas emissions) to the transport of contaminants in aquifers.
Teaching
I teach a courses for graduate students on the mathematics of multiphase, multicomponent flow in porous media and on the thermodynamics of phase behavior. I also teach an undergraduate course on energy for freshmen.
Professional Activities
Member, National Research Council Committee on Subsurface Characterization, Modeling, Monitoring, and Remediation of Fractured Rocks, 2013-present, Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame; Member, Division Committee for the Division of Earth and Life Sciences of the National Research Council, 2012-present; Member, Energy Technology Innovation System Working Group, President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, 2010; Member, California Energy Future study committee (2009-2010); Member, NRC Committee on America's Energy Future (2007-2009); co-chair, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for the Geosciences, U.S. Dept. of Energy (2007); IOR Pioneer, Society of Petroleum Engineers (2006); Honorary Doctorate in Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland (2005); member, Advisory Board, Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University (2004-present); director, Global Climate & Energy Project, Stanford University; member, Faculty Leadership Committee, Stanford Institute for the Environment (2004-05); National Associate of the National Academies (2002); Robert Earl McConnell Award, AIME (2001); election to National Academy of Engineering (2000); member, Board of Directors, David and Lucile Packard Foundation (1999-2008); member, Provost's Committee on the Environment (1995-2004); member, Board of Directors, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (1987-present); Chair, Fellowships for Science and Engineering Advisory Panel, David and Lucile Packard Foundation (1990-present); -
Dante Orta Aleman
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHis current research focuses in the use of machine-learning models for automatic interpretation of temperature profiles in Oil & Gas wells.
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Gabriele Pozzato
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Resources Engineering
BioGabriele Pozzato received his Bachelor's degree in Information Engineering from Università di Padova and his Master of Science (cum laude) in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He was a visiting scholar at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), South Carolina (USA), from January to November 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the Politecnico di Milano in 2020, defending a thesis on the optimization, modeling, and control of vehicles' powertrain. During his doctoral studies, he was an academic guest at the ETH Zürich and the Leibniz Universität Hannover. After the doctoral degree, he was junior Project Manager at Robert Bosch S.p.A., Sensortec division. He currently holds a post-doc position at the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University.
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Jeffrey Rutherford
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFor his PhD research, Jeff is using bottom-up life cycle assessment (LCA) tools to evaluate the climate and energy intensity of energy projects. Specifically, using the Oil Production and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Estimator (OPGEE, an open source LCA tool), Jeff is estimating the environmental impact of a sample of natural gas projects globally. Necessarily, this requires the rigorous quantification of life cycle energy consumption and fugitive emissions.
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Sarah Dawn Saltzer
Managing Director of SCCS, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordManaging Director Stanford Center for Carbon Storage
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Celine Scheidt
Sr Res Engineer
BioCéline Scheidt has worked extensively in uncertainty modeling, sensitivity analysis, geostatistics and in the use of distance-based methods in reservoir modeling. She obtained her PhD at Strasbourg University and the IFP (France) in applied mathematics, with a focus on the use of experimental design and geostatistical methods to model response surfaces.
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Evan Sherwin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Resources Engineering
BioI study the role of hydrocarbon fuels in a rapidly decarbonizing economy. I'm a "pick important problems first and figure out the best methods later" kind of researcher, drawing on my expertise in techno-economic assessment, machine learning and applied statistics, econometrics, optimization, and various engineering subdisciplines along the way. My current focus is assessing and demonstrating the value of diverse methane emission sensing and mitigation technologies across the oil and gas value chain in an increasingly data-rich environment.
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Nadine Skinner
Research Assistant, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Staff, SCHE Digital MEdIC Stanford
Research Associate, Digital Medic, Stanford Center for Health EducationBioNadine Ann Skinner is a recent graduate from the International Comparative Education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the relationships between the philanthropic sector, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations with the education sector. She is a mixed-methods researcher with extensive experience with qualitative methods, including research design and content analysis. Her research focuses on the relationships between universities, nongovernmental organizations, civil society, social movements, and the philanthropic sector. Her research interests include International & Comparative Education; Nonprofits & Philanthropy; Education Policy; Human Rights Education; Social Movements; Civil Society, Higher Education; Gender Studies; Service Learning and Community Engagement; and Organizational Change. She has over ten years of experience working in research, evaluation, and grants and program management in international organizations, government agencies, community-based organizations, and global philanthropic foundations in multiple countries in the Americas. She earned a MPA degree from Cornell University in Social Policy. She also has a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she double-majored in Politics and History.
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Dong Song
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioI am a PhD student studying Energy Resources Engineering. My background includes a MS in Petroleum Engineering, a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and industry experience as a petroleum engineer. I am motivated by the energy issues facing the world. My research focuses on data driven methods to understand the governing mechanisms of the data.
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Joanna Sun
Assistant Director of Student Services, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services, Department of Energy Resources Engineering
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Dhruv Suri
Masters Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioDhruv Suri, from Delhi, India is pursuing a master’s degree in energy resources engineering at Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. He graduated from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India with a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering. Dhruv aspires to work at the nexus of energy and climate, and help vulnerable communities overcome access barriers in India and other developing countries. He has worked as a visiting student researcher at the MIT D-Lab, and as a research assistant in Serbia, Singapore and the Netherlands. Dhruv is the co-founder of Candela Energy, a last-mile distribution organization providing rural villages access to life-improving products and has been awarded by ETH Student Project House in Switzerland and EarthTech in Australia.
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Haoyu Tang
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioI am a PhD student majoring in Energy Resources Engineering.
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Daniel Tartakovsky
Professor of Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEnvironmental fluid mechanics, Applied and computational mathematics, Biomedical modeling.
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Hamdi Tchelepi
Professor of Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent research activities include: (1) modeling unstable miscible and immiscible flows in heterogeneous formations, (2) developing multiscale formulations and scalable linear/nonlinear solution algorithms for multiphase flow in large-scale subsurface systems, and (3) developing stochastic approaches for quantifying the uncertainty associated with predictions of subsurface flow performance.
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Bolivia Vega
Research Engineer, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordResearch Engineer at the Energy Resources Engineering Department
Executive Director of the Center for Mechanistic Control of Unconventional Formations (CMC-UF) -
Gregory Von Wald
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSimulation and optimization of low-carbon energy systems
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Ziyan Wang
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioI am a PhD student in Ilenia Battiato’s group at the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in Stanford University. My research focuses on developing hybrid multiscale methods for unconventional hydrocarbon recovery. Currently, I am conducting simulations of reactive transport during hydraulic fracturing. This research helps to reuse hydraulic fracture fluid efficiently, which can reduce the environmental impacts of unconventional hydrocarbon production.
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Ross Weber
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI combine machine learning and physics-based modeling to develop algorithms for quantifying microstructural effects in Lithium-ion battery electrodes in computationally efficient ways. This can enable Battery Management Systems (BMS) to access real-time microscale information, which can allow for optimal battery control for improved safety and prolonged lifetime.
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Gege Wen
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
BioGege Wen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Benson Lab. She obtained her B.S. degree from the Mining Engineering Department at the University of Toronto and an M.S. degree from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University.
Her Ph.D. research focuses on using deep learning to conduct fast multiphase flow simulation. -
Timothy Yeo
Ph.D. Student in Energy Resources Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNumerical simulation of the fully coupled fluid flow and geomechanical deformation in fractured reservoirs using the method of augmented Lagrangian and discrete fracture model
