Professor Robert Zimmerman - Challenge 2

Prof. Robert Zimmerman is Professor of Rock Mechanics at Imperial College in London. Since 2006 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Transport in Porous Media and the International Journal of Engineering Science. He is the author of the monograph Compressibility of Sandstones (Elsevier, 1991), the co-author, with JC Jaeger and NGW Cook, of Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics, 4th ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and the author of the textbook Fluid Flow in Porous Media (World Scientific, 2018).
He conducts research on the hydromechanical behaviour of fractured and porous rocks, fluid flow in porous media, and rock failure and fracture, with applications to petroleum engineering, underground mining, radioactive waste disposal, and carbon sequestration. His research has been funded by, among others, the US DOE, EPSRC, NERC, BP, Chevron, Shell, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Norsk Hydro, Rio Tinto, BHP, and the European Commission.
In 2010 he was awarded the Maurice A. Biot Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, for his “outstanding contributions in applying poroelasticity to rock mechanics and fluid flow in fractured media.” In 2011 he was the MTS Visiting Professor of Geomechanics at University of Minnesota. He has given plenary keynote lectures at numerous international conferences, most recently the 1st International Conference on Geomechanics, Geo-energy and Geo-resources (Melbourne, 2016), the 9th International Conference on Porous Media (Rotterdam, 2017), and the 9th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (Singapore, 2018).

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