Biography

• Head of Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, 2006-
• Head of Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Group, 1999-2006
• Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College London, 1999-
• Assistant then Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, California, 1992-1999
• Research Reservoir Engineer with BP in Sunbury-on-Thames, 1988-1992
• MA and PhD degrees in theoretical physics from Cambridge University, 1988

Recent Measures of Esteem

• 2007 Keynote speaker Forum on Reservoir Simulation, Abu Dhabi
• 2006 Chair, Gordon Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, New Hampshire
• 2006 Keynote speaker Computational Methods in Water Resources Conference, Copenhagen
• 2001-2 SPE Distinguished Lecturer
• 2001- Director, Streamsim Technologies inc, California

Research Interests

Professor Blunt's research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with applications to oil and gas recovery, geological carbon storage and contaminant transport and clean-up in polluted aquifers. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale modelling of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He is on the editorial boards of Transport in Porous Media, Water Resources Research and Advances in Water Resources. He was the Chair of the 2006 Gordon Conference on Flow in Permeable Media. He has over 100 scientific publications.

Links

• PERM Group Homepage
• Pore-scale Modelling
• Fractured Reservoirs
• YouTube: Carbon Capture and Storage
• 200 barrels left: population, peak oil, climate change and carbon storage
• Carbon Capture and Storage: Our Only Hope to Avoid Global Warming?