WenSong

UT PGE Assistant Professor Wen Song
Assistant ProfessorAnadarko Petroleum Corporation Centennial Fellowship #1 in Petroleum Engineering

Research Areas
Research Interests

Enhanced oil recovery; Petrophysics and pore scale processes; Reservoir engineering; Unconventional resources; Geologic carbon storage; Natural gas engineering; Reservoir simulation

About

Wen Song joined the department as an assistant professor in 2019 after earning her Ph.D. in energy resources engineering and Ph.D. minor in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She holds the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Centennial Fellowship #1 in Petroleum Engineering at UT Austin.

Her research focuses on understanding fundamental micro/nanoscale reactive transport mechanisms that underlie the extraction and management of energy and environmental resources, including critical minerals, CO2 and H2.  Specifically, her group develops unique operando visualization platforms that enable imaging of dynamic fluid-solid interactions at interfacial, pore and pore-ensemble scales.

These platforms, along with analytical geochemistry and fluid mechanics, have enabled the elucidation of coupled reaction and transport mechanisms at interfaces, including those controlling critical minerals recovery from ash wastes.

Song is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, ACS PRF DNI and EAGE Arie van Weelden awards and is a Scialog fellow in the areas of Negative Emissions Science and Sustainable Minerals, Metals and Materials.

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, 2019
M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2014
B.A.Sc., Engineering Science, University of Toronto, 2012

Select Awards & Honors

  • CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (2022)
  • Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award – American Chemical Society (2020–2022)
  • Protégé of Larry W. Lake, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas (2020)
  • Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship (2018–2019)
  • Gordon Research Conference (Microuidics, Physics and Chemistry of) Best Poster Award (2017)
  • Hormoz and Fariba Ameri Graduate Education Fellowship in Earth Sciences (2015–2018)
  • 4th World Petroleum Council Youth Forum Student Invitation Fellowship (2013)
  • MIE Research Symposium Best Poster Presentation Award (2013)
  • Carbon Management Canada International Research Exchange Fellowship (2013)
  • Gordon Cressy Award for Student Leadership (2012)
  • Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program Fellowship (2009)

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