Martin J. Blunt
Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Head of Department
Department of Earth Science & Engineering
Imperial College London
London SW7 2AZ, UK
Tel. +44(0) 20 75946500
Fax +44(0) 20 75947444
E-mail: m.blunt@imperial.ac.uk
Education
1985 BA Natural Sciences, Cambridge University (First Class Honours)
1988 PhD, Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University.
“The Growth and Properties of Fractal Boundaries.”
Employment
1988-1992 Research Physicist, BP Research, Sunbury-on-Thames
1992-1999 Faculty member, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University: Assistant Professor 1992-1995; Associate Professor 1995-1999; sabbatical at Imperial College 1998-1999.
1999-date Professor of Petroleum Engineering Imperial College London: Head of the Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics research group (PERM) 1999-2006; Head of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering 2006-date.
Honours and Awards
1985 Research Scholarship, Trinity College Cambridge
1985 Clerk Maxwell and ver Heyden de Lancey Prizes, Cambridge University
1991 Tallow Chandlers Prize, BP
1996 Teaching award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
1996 Cedric Ferguson Medal, Society of Petroleum Engineers
2001 Distinguished Lecturer, Society of Petroleum Engineers
Martin Blunt is head of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. He joined Imperial in June 1999 as a Professor of Petroleum Engineering. Previous to this he was Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford University in California. Before joining Stanford in 1992, he was a research reservoir engineer with BP in Sunbury-on-Thames. He holds MA and PhD (1988) degrees in theoretical physics from Cambridge University.
Professor Blunt’s research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with applications to oil and gas recovery, contaminant transport and clean-up in polluted aquifers and geological carbon storage. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale modelling of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He has written over 100 scientific papers and is on the editorial boards of three international journals.
