Silviu Livescu, PhD
Dr. Silviu Livescu joined the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin in September 2021, after a successful technical career with Baker Hughes and ExxonMobil, authoring 38 US patents and patent applications and more than 90 papers and articles. Dr. Livescu is a distinguished member, a former distinguished lecturer, and the 2020-2023 Data Science and Engineering Analytics (DSEA) technical director of SPE, and the editor-in-chief for Geoenergy Science and Engineering (formerly the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, the most cited oil, petroleum, and natural gas journal on Google Scholar). Dr. LIvescu was a lead author of the "Future of Geothermal in Texas" report, and has introduced the first geothermal engineering class at the University of Texas at Austin, with outstanding feedback from his students.
Dr. Livescu holds BS and MSc degrees from the University "Politecnica" of Bucharest, Romania, a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University.