PMI DIRECTOR

 

Abousleiman


Younane N. Abousleiman, Ph.D.
Director

PoroMechanics Institute

100 East Boyd St., Suite P119
Norman, OK 73019
Phone: (405) 325-2900
Fax: (405) 325-7491
Email: yabousle@ou.edu

 

Dr. Younane N. Abousleiman is the Larry W. Brummett/ONEOK Chair and Professor, Mewbourne School of Petroleum & Geological Engineering (http://mpge.ou.edu/), School of Geology & GeoPhysics (http://geology.ou.edu/), and Sarkeys Energy Center. Adjunct Professor, School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Science (http://cees.ou.edu/) .

Dr. Abousleiman joined the University of Oklahoma in 1991 upon completion of his doctoral degree in civil engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark (1991). He earned his M.S. degree from Columbia University, NewYork (1986) and his B.S. from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon (1982).


Dr. Abousleiman was appointed as Director of the PoroMechanics Institute in 1998.
In addition to his time at OU, Dr. Abousleiman has served on the faculty of the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon and the University of Delaware, Newark. He has over 100 academic publications.

Dr. Abousleiman has been successful in generating $10 million in research funding for the PoroMechanics Institute and is the principal investigator for an industry-sponsored consortium focusing on research areas such as reservoir compaction and subsidence, inclined boreholes, simulation of naturally fractured reservoirs, acoustic emission in rocks, poroelastic media, and sanding.

Conference Activities

Conference Chairman - 3rd Biot Conference on Poromechanics.

Session Chairman - 2nd Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Grenoble, France, August 26-28, 2002.
Session Chairman - SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, October 2002.

Session Chairman - 4th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium (NARMS), Seattle, Washington, July 31-August 3, 2000.

Session Chairman - International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) Symposium on Theoretical and Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Porous Materials, University of Stuttgart, Germany, September 5-10, 1999.

Session Chairman - 37th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Vail, Colorado, June 6-9, 1999.

Conference Co-Chairman and Organizer - Biot Conference on Poromechanics, The Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 14-16, 1998.

Conference Chairman, The Fourth International Conference on Computer Methods and Water Resources (CMWR 97), Byblos, Lebanon, June 16-18, 1997. Session Chairman

9th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), Wuhan, People's Republic of China, November 2-7, 1997.

Session Chairman - 2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium (NARMS), Montréal, Quebec, Canada, June 19-21, 1996.

Session Chairman - 11th Engineering Mechanics Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Radisson Bahia Mar Resort, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 19-22, 1996.

Conference Chairman - The Third International Conference on Computer Methods and Water Resources (CMWR 95), Beirut, Lebanon, September 25-28, 1995.

Session Chairman - 35th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, University of Nevada, Reno, June 5-7, 1995

Honors & Awards

Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2003.

Vice-Chairman of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division, Poromechanics Committee, 2002, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Listed in Who's Who in America in Science and Engineering, Marquis, 4th & 5th Editions, 1998-1999, 2000-2001.

Listed in Who's Who in the World, Marquis, 17th Edition, 2000.

Award for Most Significant Paper in Fundamental Research by the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), 1997.

Professional Societies

Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers

Member of the International Society of Rock Mechanics

Charter Member of the American Rock Mechanics Association

 

 

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