Research Team
Dr. Eric van OortJ. J. King Chair in Engineering
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Well construction, drilling automation & control, sensor design, big data analytics, complex well construction challenges, drilling-related rock mechanics, drilling fluids, and well abandonment & decommissioning.
Professor and John Centennial Teaching Fellowship
Civil Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Hydration chemistry and microstructural characterization of portland cement and related materials, mechanisms of chemical deterioration in concrete, concrete durability, reducing the environmental impact of concrete production.
Veerabhadra S Denduluri
Graduate Research Assistant
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Well Integrity, Drilling Engineering, Geopolymers & other Portland cement alternatives
George Ulerio
Graduate Research Assistant Civil Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Permeability, Geopolymers & other Portland cement alternatives
External Advisor
Dr. Sriramya Nair
Research Advisor
Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education, Cornell University
Research Areas: Construction materials; oil and gas well cementing; fresh and hardened state properties of portland cement-based materials, alkali-activated materials and magneto-rheological cements; fiber-optic sensors and magnetic sensors
Alumni (PhD Graduate Students & Post-Docs)
Dr. Xiangyu Liu
Graduate Research Assistant
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Geopolymers, mud-cement conversion, mechanical properties, self-healing, well construction and abandonment, drilling engineering.
Research Associate
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Well abandonment, wellbore seal integrity, geopolymers, FRP composites, polymer concrete, and polymer nano-composites.
Dr. Qian Wu
Graduate Research Assistant
Civil Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Fiber optic sensors, hydrocarbon detection, cement hydration monitoring, cement integrity
Dr. Katy Aughenbaugh
Research Advisor
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Research Areas: Geopolymers, cementitious materials, durability
Dr. Saeid Enayatpour
Research Scientist
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: 3D computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis
Dr. Parth Panchmatia
Postdoctoral Fellow
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin
Research Areas: Well construction & abandonment, cement chemistry, material characterization techniques, transport properties of cementitious materials, concrete pavements.
Staff
Tesse Smitherman
Administrative Assistant
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin