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Sara Abedi is an Associate Professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, where she also holds the Stephen Holditch Faculty Fellowship. Her research focuses on the mechanics and physics of geomaterials, emphasizing multiscale chemo-mechanical characterization modeling, reservoir geomechanics, and the failure and flow of granular materials. With a strong academic background, including a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she has garnered multiple accolades for her contributions to the field. Abedi has received the Dean Engineering Excellence Award and the Karen E. Olson '87 Louis H. Turner Excellence Research Award from Texas A&M College of Engineering in 2022, along with the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 2021. Her work has been published in various prestigious journals and has been recognized at professional conferences such as the American Rock Mechanics Association.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.