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Zuleima Karpyn

Email: ztk101@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-2273
Office Address: 248d Deike Building
Title: Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Unit: Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Webpage: https://www.eme.psu.edu/directory/zuleima-t-karpyn

Research Interests:

  • Multi-phase flow in porous media
  • Capillary-driven flow
  • Unconventional reservoirs
  • Solid/liquid interfaces and wettability
  • X-ray computed tomography and image processing techniques
  • Enhanced oil recovery from oil-wet carbonate rocks via chemically tuned waterflooding
  • Experimental Investigation of gas storage and transport in shales
  • Pore-scale analysis of wettability alteration in carbonate rocks and the effect of water salinity

About:

Zuleima Karpyn is Professor, Program Chair and Quentin and Louise Wood Endowed Faculty Fellow in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. Dr. Karpyn specializes on multiphase flow and transport in porous media, and X-ray computed tomography. Areas of application include unconventional resource characterization, reservoir engineering, environmental remediation and carbon sequestration. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Universidad Central de Venezuela, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in petroleum and natural gas engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karpyn is a recipient of the 2008 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award granted by the National Science Foundation, the 2010 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is Energi Simulation (former Foundation CMG) Chair in Fluid Behavior and Rock Interactions since 2014, 2016-17 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and 2018-19 BIG10 Academic Leadership Fellow. She has also served as Associate Editor of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal (2009-2014), Assistant Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering (2014-2017), and Associate Editor of Transport in Porous Media (2018-present).