Director
Zoya Heidari
Professor
Current Ph.D. Students
Isa Silveira de Araujo
Dissertation Topic: Quantifying the Impact of Geochemistry on Rock Physical Properties of Organic-Rich Mudrocks
Zulkuf Azizoglu
Dissertation Topic: Modeling and Interpretation of Multi-Frequency Electromagnetic Measurements in the Presence of Complex Mineralogy and Pore Structure
Sabyasachi Dash
Dissertation Topic: Enhanced Assessment of Petrophysical Properties in Organic-Rich Mudrocks Honoring Rock Fabric and Geochemistry
Ibrahim Gomaa
Dissertation Topic: Assessment of the CO2 Sealing and Storage Capacity of Organic-Rich Mudrocks – Implications of CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Gas Recovery
Pallavi Sahu
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Dalma C Cerro Arrieta
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Mariella El-Khoury
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Jamil El Masry
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Ali Oshaish
Dissertation Topic: TBD
Current M.Sc. Students
TBA
Postdoctoral Fellows
TBA
Research Fellows
Ameneh Rostami
Research Areas: Development of Advanced Methods for Formation Evaluation of Permian Basin
Former Ph.D. Students
Mehrnoosh Saneifar
Texas A&M University
Dissertation: Application of Conventional Well Logs for Rock Classification to Enhance Characterization of Heterogeneity in Carbonate Formations (January 2012 – May 2015)
Lu Chi
Texas A&M
Dissertation: Interpretation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements in Formations with Complex Pore Structure (January 2012 – August 2015)
Huangye Chen
Texas A&M
Dissertation: Quantifying the Impact of Complex Pore and Grain Structures on Estimation of Hydrocarbon Saturation using Electrical Resistivity and Dielectric Permittivity Measurements (January 2013 – May 2016)
Aderonke Aderibigbe
Texas A&M
Dissertation: Application of Petrophysical and Geophysical Analysis in Improvement of Completions Design in Organic-Rich Mudrock Formations (September 2012 – May 2016)
Clotilde Chen Valdes
Texas A&M
Dissertation: An Experimental Multi-Scale Assessment of Mechanical Properties of Organic-Rich Mudrocks (September 2013 – August 2017)
Kai Cheng
Texas A&M
Dissertation: Develop New NMR-Based Methods for Characterization of Pore Structure and Quantification of Cation Exchange Capacity of Complex Formations(January 2013 –May 2019)
Saurabh Tandon
UT Austin
Dissertation: Interpretation and Numerical Modeling of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Complex Reservoirs (September 2015 – August 2020)
Artur Posenato Garcia
UT Austin
Dissertation: Multi-Frequency Modeling and Interpretation of Electrical Measurements in the Presence of Complex Rock Fabric and Composition(January 2015 –August 2020)
Archana Jagadisan
UT Austin
Dissertation: Multiscale Characterization of the Impacts of Geochemistry and Reservoir Conditions on the Wettability of Kerogen and Organic-rich Mudrocks (September 2016 – December 2021)
Andres Gonzalez
UT Austin
Dissertation: Quantification of Rock Fabric through Multi-scale and Multi-physics Image Data for Rock Typing and Enhanced Formation Evaluation (January 2017 – May 2023)
Former M.Sc. Students
Nikhil Kethireddy
Texas A&M
Thesis: Quantifying the Effect of Kerogen on Electrical Resistivity Measurements in Organic-Rich Source Rocks (September 2011 – December 2013)
Alvaro Aranibar
Texas A&M
Thesis: Rock Classification in Organic-Rich Shale based on Petrophysical and Elastic Rock Properties Calculated from Well Logs (September 2012 – December 2014)
Gama Firdaus
Texas A&M
Thesis: Laboratory Measurements of Electrical Conductivity of Kerogen in Organic-Rich Mudrocks (September 2013 – August 2015)
Emmanuel Oyewole
Texas A&M
Thesis: A New Method for Assessment of Directional Permeability in Carbonate Formations using Electrical Resistivity Measurements (January 2014 – December 2015)
Abdelrahman Kotb
Texas A&M
Thesis: Pore Network Connectivity and its Impact on Electrical Resistivity of Anisotropic Rocks with Complex pore Structure (June 2014 – December 2015)
Abdalla Ali
Texas A&M
Thesis: Evaluating the effects of Acid Stimulation Treatment Before and After Fines Migration on Petrophysical Properties in Sandstone Reservoirs (September 2014 – December 2015)
Anqi Yang
Texas A&M
Thesis: Experimentally Quantifying the Impact of Thermal Maturity on Aromaticity and Density in Kerogen (September 2014 – August 2016)
Shahin Amin
Texas A&M
Thesis: Integrated Rock Classification in Organic-Rich Mudrocks: A Case Study on Eagle Ford Formation (September 2015 – May 2017)
Sonia Arumdati Purba
UT Austin
Thesis: New Method for Rock Classification in Carbonate Formations using Well-Log-Based Rock Fabric Quantification (January 2016 – December 2017)
Mohammed Al-Obaidi
UT Austin
Thesis: Automatic Well-Log-Based Fabric-Oriented Rock Classification For Detecting Landing Zones and Completion Intervals in the Midland Basin (September 2016 – August 2018)
Naif M. Al-Rubaie
UT Austin
Thesis: Dynamic Petrophysical Properties of Laminated Rocks: An Experimental Investigation (September 2016 – December 2018)
Chelsea Newgord
UT Austin
Thesis: Wettability Assessment Using Resistivity and NMR Measurements (September 2017 – December 2019)
Howard August
UT Austin
Thesis: Integrated Analysis of NMR and Electrical Resistivity Measurements for Enhanced Calibration-Free Assessment of Throat-size Distribution, Permeability, and Capillary Pressure in Carbonate Formations (January 2021 – December 2023)
