William R Rossen

Dr. William R. Rossen received his BS from MIT and PhD from the University of Minnesota, both in chemical engineering. He worked for 7 years at Chevron Oil Field Research Co., and then joined the faculty in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in 1989, attaining the rank of full Professor. In 2006 he moved to Delft University of Technology (DUT) in The Netherlands. He has published more than 125 journal articles on flow in porous media and especially foam...See more

Dr. William R. Rossen received his BS from MIT and PhD from the University of Minnesota, both in chemical engineering. He worked for 7 years at Chevron Oil Field Research Co., and then joined the faculty in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in 1989, attaining the rank of full Professor. In 2006 he moved to Delft University of Technology (DUT) in The Netherlands. He has published more than 125 journal articles on flow in porous media and especially foam applications in geological formations. He was named Best Instructor at DUT in 2011 and an SPE IOR Pioneer in 2012. He received the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 2002. He is a Distinguished Member of the SPE. He is a co-author of Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery by L.W. Lake et al., 2014. See less