BIO

Professor, Imperial College London, 1999-date Head of Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, 2006-2011 Head of Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Group, 1999-2006 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 2024 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 2021 Head Major Awards Committee, Society of Petroleum Engineers 2019 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 2019 Celsius Lecturer, University of Uppsala 2018 Honorary Lifetime Membership, InterPore 2017 Erasmus Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers 2016 President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching 2012 Darcy Award, Society of Core Analysts 2011 Winner of the Lester U Uren Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers 2011- Editor-in-Chief, Transport in Porous Media 2011- Director, iRock Technologies, China 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 many applications including geological carbon storage, and contaminant transport, clean-up in polluted aquifers and fibrous porous materials. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale imaging, modelling and analysis of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transport in Porous Media. He has over 300 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.