Birol Dindoruk, PhD
Dr. Birol Dindoruk is currently AADE Endowed Professor of Petroleum Engineering at University of Houston. Previously he was the Chief Scientist of Reservoir Physics and the Principal Technical Expert of Reservoir Engineering in Shell. His technical contributions have been acknowledged with many awards during his career, including SPE Honorary Member Award (2023), SPE Lester C. Uren Award (2014), SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Medal (1994), and SPE Distinguished Membership. In 2017, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his significant theoretical and practical contributions to EOR & CO2 sequestration. He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2010-2011, the 2017-2020 SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics (DSEA) technical director and a member of the Advisory Committee of the SPE Reservoir Dynamics and Description technical discipline. He is the only individual in the entire world who served as an editor-in-chief for the three major petroleum engineering journals (Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, and SPE journals).
Dr. Dindoruk is well-known for his extensive work on thermodynamics of phase behavior/EOS development and experimental work, interaction of phase behavior and flow in porous media, EOR and CO2 sequestration, and correlative methodologies. Recently, Dr. Dindoruk has also been working in the area of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning and focusing on effective incorporation of data sciences into the oil and natural gas industry practices and energy systems. In recent years, he has authored/co-authored various articles for hydrogen, geothermal systems and adsorptive storage.
He has 28 years of industrial experience, holds a BSc degree in petroleum engineering from Technical University of Istanbul, MSc degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Alabama, a PhD degree from Stanford University in petroleum engineering and mathematics, and an MBA from University of Houston.