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Affiliations

• Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
• Earth Science and Engineering
• Environmental Science and Engineering

Education Profile

• ​​​​​​​​Ph.D., Purdue University, 1987
  
• M.Sc., University of Maryland, 1984
• Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 1982​

Research Interests

Professor Santamarina explores the scientific foundations of geomaterial behavior and subsurface processes using particle-level and pore-scale experiments, combined with numerical methods and high-resolution process monitoring systems. This conceptual and experimental framework is advancing the study of phenomena and the development of solutions in energy geotechnology with contributions to: resource recovery (petroleum, methane hydrates), energy geo-storage, efficiency and conservation, and energy waste (carbon geological storage, fly ash and nuclear waste).

Selected Publications

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h9S80WwAAAAJ&hl=en