CONTACT INFORMATION:
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Room 4030, Engineering Building
Mailing Address:
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Dept. 3295
16th and Gibbon St. Laramie, WY 82071-2000
Email: valvarad@uwyo.edu
HOMETOWN:
Caracas, Venezuela
EDUCATION:
- University of Minnesota, Ph. D. 1996, Chemical Engineering.
- Institut Françs du Péole School (IFP), Master 2002, Exploration and Production.
- Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), B.Sc. 1987, Physics.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
| 2009 |
Don Stinson Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming |
| 1995 |
Outstanding teaching assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota |
| 1991 |
Scholarship to pursue a Ph. D. in the U.S.A. awarded by Intevep, S.A. |
| 1987 |
Strategic Reserve, Intevep S.A. |
| PROFESSIONAL RECORD:
| 2006-present |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
| 2005-2009 |
Senior Reservoir Engineer, Norwest-Questa Corp., Golden, CO |
| 2003-2006 |
Associate Director, SDM Consultancy and Services, Venezuela |
| 2003-2005 |
National Petroleum Agency (ANP) Visiting Professor, PUC-Rio, Oil and Gas Program, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1999-2003 |
Project Head on Strategic Research on EOR (budget > $2,000,000/year). Recovery Methods Department, PDVSA-Intevep, Los Teques, Venezuela |
| 1998-2003 |
Visiting Researcher, Physics Center, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientícas (IVIC), Altos de Pipe, Venezuela |
| 1998-2003 |
Associate (Adjunct) Professor, Department of Thermodynamics and Transfer Phenomena, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela |
| 1992-1996 |
Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. |
| 1988-1998 |
Research Associate, Rock Physics, Department of Reservoirs, Exploration and Production, Intevep S.A, Los Teques, Venezuela. |
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
| 2010-present |
Reviewer for Chemical Engineering Communications |
| 2010-present |
Reviewer for Colloids of Surface Sciences A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects |
| 2010-present |
Reviewer for Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology |
| 2010-present |
Reviewer for SPE Journal |
| 2009-present |
Reviewer of Journal of Physical Chemistry |
| 2008-present |
UW SPE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor |
| 2008-present |
Reviewer for Transport in Porous Media |
| 2008-present |
Reviewer for AIChE Journal |
| 2008-present |
Reviewer for Chemical Engineering Science |
| 2008-present |
Technical Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation&Engineering: Formation Evaluation |
| 2007-present |
Technical Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation&Engineering |
| 2006-present |
Reviewer for Water Resources Research |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
| 2009-present |
American Chemical Society |
| 2008-present |
Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
| 2000-present |
Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) |
| 1999-present |
Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics (SIAM) |
| 1999-present |
Venezuelan Physics Society. |
| 1996-present |
American Physical Society (APS). |
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