D. Nicolas Espinoza

Associate Professor Hidebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 200 E Dean Keeton CPE#3.118A Austin TX 78712 +1 512-471-8280 espinoza@austin.utexas.edu

 

Education and Training
Ph.D. Civil Engineering	Georgia Institute of Technology	2011
M.Sc. Civil Engineering	Georgia Institute of Technology	2008
Diploma Civil Engineering	Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	2005
Research  and Professional Experience
Associate Professor	The University of Texas at Austin	2019-present
Assistant Professor	The University of Texas at Austin	2013-2019
Postdoctoral Researcher	École des Ponts ParisTech	2012-2013
Graduate Research Assistant	Georgia Institute of Technology	2006-2011
Undergraduate Research Assistant	Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	2005-2006

 

Honors and Awards

• Elected “ARMA Future Leader” by the American Rock Mechanics Association, June 2018.
• Invited Keynote Speaker at KAUST Research Conference: Recovery of Difficult Hydrocarbons, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, February 13, 2018.
• Outstanding reviewer for the journal Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, April 2018.
• Outstanding reviewer for the Journal Marine and Petroleum Geology, April 2018.
• Outstanding reviewer for the International Journal of Solids and Structures, March 2018.
• Outstanding reviewer for the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, May 2017.
• Outstanding reviewer for the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, February 2017.
• Selected Contributions from the 50th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium Held in Houston, Texas from 26 to 29 June, 2016.
• Elected member of the “Poromechanics Committee” at the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, May 2016.
• Invited Keynote Speaker at Workshop On Multiscale Computational Models of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources, CENPES/PETROBRAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 28, 2014.
• Postdoctoral Investigator at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), January 2013.
• James Lai Outstanding MSc Student Award, Geosystems – Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2009.
• Research Assistantship for Undergraduate Final Project, Cordoba Science Agency, 2005.

 

 

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WpKx-qgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3418-0180

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36241828000

 

 

Synergistic Activities

• Reviewer of journal articles:
  • Petroleum Engineering: SPE Journal, International Journal of Coal Geology, Geophysics, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.
  • Geophysics: Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters.
  • Geology: American Mineralogist, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology.
  • Fluid Transport: Transport in Porous Media, Advances in Water Resources, Water Resources Research.
  • Environmental Engineering: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Geotechnics, Chemical Engineering Communications.
  • Engineering Mechanics: International Journal of Solids and Structures.
  • Geotechnical Engineering: Géotechnique, Géotechnique Letters, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Acta Geotechnica.
• Reviewer for scientific conferences: American Association of Rock Mechanics, Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• Reviewer for government agencies: Swiss National Science Foundation.
• Professional affiliations: SPE, ASCE-EMI, Sigma Xi.
• Committees: EMI Poromechanics, UT Cockrell School Equal Opportunity in Engineering.
• Energy Frontier Research Center former affiliations: Center for Subsurface Energy Security (http://www.utefrc.org/), Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (http://www.gsco2.org/).