He is a research professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She served as the Vice President (2013-2014) and the President/CEO (2015-2019) of Ultimate EOR Services LLC. She served as the assistant director for the Department of Energy-funded Center of Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) from 2009-2014.
She holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University in Iran and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. She has over 30 years of experience modeling multiphase flow, property modeling, and reservoir simulation of enhanced oil recovery processes and more than 10 years of experience modeling and designing subsurface contaminant transport and remediation processes. She has 105 journal publications, 142 paper proceedings, and 2 Chapter books. She oversees the University of Texas Chemical Flooding Simulator (UTCHEM) development, user support, and training. She has received research funding from NSF, DOE-BES, DOE-NETL, RPSEA, and several national and international oil companies such as Maersk Oil, Oxy, Shell, ConocoPhillips, TOTAL, and Chevron, etc.
Her current research projects are listed below.
- Mechanistic understanding and modeling of key mechanisms for CO2 storage in saline aquifers and depleted gas reservoirs
- Mechanistic understanding and modeling of key mechanisms for Hydrogen storage in saline aquifers and depleted gas reservoirs
- Modeling and application of microgels for conformance control
- Enhanced oil recovery processes using chemicals, low salinity waterflood, and gas for injection
- Wettability and chemically altered wettability oil recovery methods
- Numerical simulator development and application to EOR processes and CO2 sequestration
- Petrophysical property modeling
- Groundwater contamination modeling and remediation
Title: Research Professor
Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010-Present
