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:

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Faculty Alphabetical listing, by last name

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	Linda Battalora Associate Teaching Professor Room 319 Marquez 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.
	Alfred William (Bill) Eustes III Associate Professor Room 213 Marquez 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 Professor and Interim Department Head Room 206A Marquez 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 Dean of CERSE Room 201 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3746 Fax: 303-273-3189 Laser/Rock Interaction \| CEMMC 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.
	B. Todd Hoffman Assistant Professor Room 313 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3965 Fax: 303-273-3189 email: thoffman@mines.edu Research Interests: Enhanced Oil Recovery, Shale Oil reservoirs, Reservoir Model Predictions, Reservoir Characterization and Numerical flow simulation.
	Hossein Kazemi Professor, Chesebro' Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Engineering Room 217 Marquez 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.
	Carrie McClelland Associate Teaching Professor Room 317 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3367 Fax: 303-273-3189 email: cmcclell@mines.edu Research Interests: Engineering education; Teaching pedagogy; Reuse and optimization of drilling, completion and fracturing fluids; Produced water handling; Well integrity.
	Mark G. Miller Associate Teaching Professor Room 303 Marquez 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 219 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: 303-384-2419 Fax: 303-273-3189 FAST Consortium \| CEMMC \| 3D Tight Gas \| UNGI 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 203 Marquez 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 215 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3457 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Center for Rock Abuse Bakken Research Consortium 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.
	Azra Tutuncu Professor Harry D. Campbell Chair Room 205 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3747 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Director, Unconventional Natural Gas and Oil Institute (UNGI) email: atutuncu@mines.edu Research Interests: include rock-fluid interactions, integrated borehole stability, geomechanics, conventional and unconventional reservoir characterization, formation damage detection, mitigation and removal.
	Craig W. Van Kirk Professor Emeritus Room 207 Marquez 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.
	Wendy Wempe Research Assistant Professor Room 114B Marquez Hall Golden, CO 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2366 Fax: (303) 273-3186 email: wwempe@mines.edu Research Interests: Petrophyscial and rock physics modeling of porous materials, with a focus on modeling porosity type, relative permeability, and wettability. Electrical resistivity as a tool for characterization. Interplay between the water and energy resources industries.
	Philip H. Winterfeld Research Associate Professor Room 114A Marquez Hall Golden, CO 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2366 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Energy Modeling Group email: pwinterf@mines.edu Research Interests: Numerical simulation, flow and transport phenomena in porous media, and computer software development.
	Yu-Shu Wu Professor Room 221 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado, 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2093 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Energy Modeling Group 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 315 Marquez Hall Golden, CO 80401 USA Office: (303) 384-2449 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Energy Modeling Group 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 311 Marquez 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.
	Joe Chen Laboratory Coordinator II Room 307 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3291 FAX: (303) 273-3189 email: jychen@mines.edu
	Patti Hassen Program Assistant Room 206 Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3946 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: phassen@mines.edu
	Terri Snyder Administrative Assistant Room 206 Marquez 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 112A Marquez Hall Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Office: (303) 273-3945 Fax: (303) 273-3189 email: dwinnbow@mines.edu

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