Professor Dr. Carlos Santamarina

Biography

Carlos Santamarina is a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he holds the G. Wayne Clough Chair. He has also taught at institutions such as NYU-Polytechnic, the University of Waterloo, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His research focuses on processes involving sediments, fractured rocks, and complex fluids, employing particle-level pore-scale experiments complemented by analytical solutions and numerical methods. His work is pertinent to the fields of geotechnical engineering and energy geotechnology, emphasizing resource recovery for oil and gas, energy geo-storage, and the geological storage of energy waste including carbon and nuclear waste. He has built a vast network encompassing over a hundred team members across national laboratories, industry, state and federal agencies, and more than 40 universities worldwide.

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