People

Faculty and Staff

Erdal Ozkan, Director

Erdal Ozkan is a professor of Petroleum Engineering and the co-director of the Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies (MCERS) at the Colorado School of Mines. He has BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tulsa, all in Petroleum Engineering. He has twenty-five years of teaching and research experience. His main research interests are horizontal and multilateral well technology, pressure-transient analysis, modeling fluid flow in porous media, and unconventional reservoirs. Dr. Ozkan is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the recipient of the SPE Lester C. Uren (2013) and Formation Evaluation (2007) Awards. He also served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on shale-gas reservoirs in 2011 – 2012. Dr. Ozkan is also a member of the ASME and SIAM.

Erdal Ozkan, PhD
F.H. “Mick” Merelli/Cimarex Energy Distinguished Department Head Chair
Professor
Room 203 Marquez Hall
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado 80401 USA
Office: (303) 273-3188
Fax: (303) 273-3189
eozkan@mines.edu
Personal Website
Petroleum Engineering Department
Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies

Xiaolong Yin, Associate Professor

Xiaolong Yin is an associate professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department. He has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, A MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and a BS in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics from Beijing University. His research interests are numerical simulation of single- and multi-phase flows in fractured rocks, micro-channel networks, and fibrous media. Dynamics of liquid-solid and gas-solid suspensions that feature particle size distributions. Novel numerical method for gas-solid suspension flows and transient analysis of porous media flows.

Xiaolong Yin, PhD
Associate Professor
Room 315 Marquez Hall
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado 80401 USA
Office: (303) 384-2449
Fax: (303) 273-3189
xyin@mines.edu
Petroleum Engineering Department

Hossein Kazemi, Professor

Hossein Kazemi is a professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department, and co-director of the Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies(MCERS).  He has a BS and PHD from the University of Texas/Austin.  Dr. Kazemi has a long career in industry with Marathon Oil.  His research interests are petroleum reservoir simulation, improved and enhanced oil recovery, transient testing in wells, and geomechanics simulation.

Hossein Kazemi, PhD
Professor
Room 217 Marquez Hall
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado 80401 USA
Office: (303) 384-2072
Fax: (303) 273-3189
hkazemi@mines.edu
Petroleum Engineering Department

Luis Zerpa, Professor

Luis E. Zerpa joined the Mines Petroleum Engineering Department in April 2013. Before joining Mines, he was an assistant professor at the University of Zulia, Venezuela. Dr. Zerpa has consulting experience leading the reservoir simulation studies of an industrial offshore chemical EOR pilot project developed by the Venezuelan National Oil Company (PDVSA). He holds a B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zulia, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines (2013). His research interests are in the areas of reservoir engineering, fluid flow in porous media, enhanced oil recovery, flow assurance and multiphase flow modeling, and natural gas hydrates as potential energy source.

Luis Zerpa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Room 307 Marquez Hall
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado 80401 USA
Office: (303) 384-2627
Fax: (303) 273-3189
lzerpa@mines.edu
Petroleum Engineering Department

Graduate Students

Tugce Calisgan

Tugce is a PhD student at Petroleum Engineering Department. She received her BS and MS degree both in Petroleum Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and Colorado School of Mines, respectively. She worked at Transatlantic Petroleum company for 2 years in Turkey and Dallas, TX as a Reservoir Engineer.

Meruyert Makatova

Meruyert is PHD student in the Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines conducting studies on phase behavior of multiphase fluid systems. She received her BS and MS degree in petroleum engineering from Kazakh-British Technical University. She has 3 years of educational experience as a lecturer.

Dina Hegazy

Dina received her MS at Colorado School of Mines with Dr. Azra Tutuncu. Currently working on PhD in UREP. 

Gizem Yildrim

Gizem is a PHD student in Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. She received her MS degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering and her BS degree in Geophysical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.  

Alumni