Faculty

Our team has many years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry and enjoys a worldwide reputation and recognition in their areas of teaching and research:

Front Row, L-R: Erdal Ozkan, Ramona Graves, Linda Battalora, Dwayne Bourgoyne,
Xiaolong Yin, Manika Prasad, Al Sami, Hossein Kazemi.
Back Row, L-R: Bill Eustes, Yu-Shu Wu, Mark Miller, Will Fleckenstein, Jennifer Miskimins, Craig Van Kirk.

Faculty Alphabetical listing, by last name

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	Linda Battalora Lecturer Room 225 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3903 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: lbattalo@mines.edu Research Interests: Petroleum reservoir fluids, biofuels, energy engineering, biomedical engineering, patent and trademark law, domestic and international oil and gas law.
	Dwayne Bourgoyne Assistant Professor Room 237, Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado, 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3965 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Email: dbourgoy@mines.edu Research Interests: Natural gas liquefaction and shipping; deep-water, arctic, and unconventional drilling; subsea operations, biofuels refining, geothermal energy systems, and experimental fluid dynamics.
	Alfred William (Bill) Eustes III Associate Professor Room 235 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3745 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: aeustes@mines.edu Research Interests: Drilling operations, drillstring dynamics, wave propagation, tubular design, horizontal drilling, drill bit analysis, computerized drilling simulations, artificial lift, completions and workovers.
	William (Will) Fleckenstein Adjunct Professor Room 262 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2030 FAX: (303) 273-3189 email: wflecken@mines.edu Research Interests: Well completions, stimulations, tubular and wellbore design, workover operations.
	Ramona M. Graves Professor and Interim Department Head Room 251 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3746 Fax: 303-273-3189 Laser/Rock Interaction \| em2c email: rgraves@mines.edu Research Interests: Reservoir characterization, dynamic and static mechanical rock properties, in-situ stress evaluation, sand control, subsidence control, laser/rock interaction, and multidisciplinary research.
	Hossein Kazemi Chesebro' Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Engineering Room 229 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2072 Fax: 303-273-3189 Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies email: hkazemi@mines.edu Research Interests: Transient testing in wells, petroleum reservoir simulation, improved/enhanced oil recovery.
	Mark G. Miller Lecturer Room 255 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3187 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: mmiller@mines.edu Research Interests: Specialties include computer applications, numerical simulation, drilling, air drilling, directional drilling, artificial lift, phase behavior, field automation, and computer software design.
	Jennifer L. Miskimins Associate Professor Room 247 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: 303-384-2419 Fax: 303-273-3189 FAST Consortium \| e=mc2 email: jmiskimi@mines.edu Research Interests: Stimulations/hydraulic fracturing, well completions, rock mechanics, unconventional reservoirs, multidisciplinary research, economics and property evaluation.
	Erdal Ozkan Professor Room 243 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3188 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies e-mail: eozkan@mines.edu Research Interests: Well test analysis, fluid flow in porous media, horizontal well technology, well performance evaluation, and water and gas coning.
	Manika Prasad Professor Room 231 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3457 Fax: (303) 273-3189 e-mail: mprasad@mines.edu Research Interests: Multidisciplinary research: rock, sediment and fluid properties, quantitative nano- and microscale characterizations, flow zone mapping, non-destructive materials characterization, e.g., tubing, cement and concrete characterization.
	Bill Scoggins Research Professor President's Office 1500 Illinois Street Golden, Colorado 80401-1887 Office: (303) 273-3280 Fax: (303) 273-3285 email: presoffice@mines.edu Dr. Scoggins currently serves as President of the university.
	Craig W. Van Kirk Professor Room 261 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3749 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: cvankirk@mines.edu Research Interests: Numerical simulation, reservoir characterization. Field development and management, and supplemental recovery. Multidisciplinary research.
	Yu-Shu Wu Professor Room 241 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado, 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2093 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: ywu@mines.edu Research Interests: Reservoir dynamics and simulation, flow and transport phenomena in porous media; coupled processes of multiphase fluid flow, chemicals transport, heat transfer, and rock deformation in EOR/IOR processes; and well testing analysis.
	Xiaolong Yin Assistant Professor Room 223 Alderson Hall Golden, CO 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2449 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: xyin@mines.edu Research Interests: Numerical simulation of single- and multi-phase flows in fractured rocks, micro-channel networks, and fibrous media. Dynamics of liquid-solid and gas-solid suspensions that feature particle size distributions. Novel numerical method for gas-solid suspension flows and transient analysis of porous media flows.

Staff:

	Alireza (Al) Sami Laboratory Coordinator III Room 161 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3966 FAX: (303) 273-3189 email: asami@mines.edu Research interests: Laboratory Data Measurement Methodology & Application of Cryogenics in Laser Drilling and Well Stimulation.
	Patti Hassen Program Assistant Room 251 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3946 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: phassen@mines.edu
	Terri Snyder Administrative Assistant Room 251 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3827 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: tsnyder @mines.edu
	Denise Winn-Bower Program Assistant - FAST/MCERS Room 230B Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3945 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: dwinnbow@mines.edu

Faculty

Faculty Alphabetical listing, by last name

Staff:

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