Mark Knackstedt is Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University (ANU). He received his BSc degree at Columbia University and PhD in Chemical Engineering at Rice University. He has been in Australia since 1990 -- primarily at ANU with a brief successful stint with a startup for the oil and gas sector. He was a previous Interpore Kimberley Clark Distinguished Lecturer. He has was awarded the George C. Matson Memorial Award from the AAPG in 2009, the ENI award for New Frontiers in Hydrocarbon Research in 2010, the 2015 Society of Petroelum  Engineering Distinguished Lecturer award and several Distinguished Speaker awards from the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts.  He has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering since 2012.

For details on the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship Award presentations, please see here.