Faculty
Department Chair
David Schechter
Department Chair
Longwell-Leonard Family
Distinguished Professor
dschechter@lsu.edu
Surfactant/Gas EOR in Unconventional Reservoirs | CO2 EOR/CCS | Reservoir Simulation
Professorial Faculty
Mauricio Almeida
Professional in Residence
Well Control | Gas Influx Management and Blowout Prevention | Well Construction | Completions | Managed Pressure Drilling
Jader Barbosa, Jr.
Professor
Sullins #3 Professor
Decarbonization of Energy Systems | Flow Assurance | Wellbore Integrity
Yuanhang Chen
Associate Professor
Energy | CCUS | Geothermal | AI | Well Construction | Environmental | Advanced Computation
Ipsita Gupta
Associate Professor
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd H. McMullan Professor
Subsurface Storage: H2, CO2, Geothermal | Critical Minerals: Li | Barrier Integrity: Cement, Caprock | Gas Hydrates
Richard Hughes
Professional in Residence
Campanile Charities Professor
CO2 EOR and Carbon Sequestration | Multiphase Flow in Porous & Fractured Media | Geothermal | Reservoir Surveillance | Production Data Analysis | Unconventionals
Seung Kam
Professor / Graduate Advisor
Donald W. and Gayle A. Keller
Distinguished Professor
Multi-component and Multi-phase System in Energy Industry
Olufemi Olorode
Assistant Professor
Roy S. Sullins Development Professor #1
Multiscale Fractured Rocks | Molecular Dynamics | Deep Learning | Geomechanics | Mixed Reality
Dandina Rao
Professor
Emmett C. Wells Jr. Distinguished Professor
EOR | Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage | CCUS
Jyotsna Sharma
Associate Professor
Devon Development Professor #1
Sensors | Enhanced Oil Recovery | Machine Learning | Fiber Optic Sensing
Karsten Thompson
Professor
Malcolm C. Jr. and Gene
Perdue Lowe Professor
Energy | Environment | Materials | Advanced Computing
Paulo Waltrich
Associate Professor
H. Mark Krause Jr. Professor
Multiphase Flows in Pipes | Liquid-Assisted Gas Lift | Liquid Loading - Gas Wells | Artificial Lift Systems | Managed Pressure Drilling | Flow Assurance | Instrumentation and Control for Field Operations
Andrew K. Wojtanowicz
Emeritus Professor
Texaco Chair in Environmental
Engineering
Borehole Mechanics | Well Design and Production Optimization | Environmental Control Technologies for Petroleum Engineering
Mehdi Zeidouni
Associate Professor
Donald W. Clayton Professor
Energy | CO2/Hydrogen/Gas Storage | Subsurface Characterization & Modeling