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Researchers

Ph.D. Martín A. Díaz-Viera

Research Scientist in the Hydrocarbon Exploitation Department at the Mexican Petroleum Institute.
email: mdiazv@imp.mx

  • Main Research Interests: Mathematical, Numerical and Computational Modeling of Earth Systems; Flow and transport modeling in porous media; Geostatistics and Spatial Stochastic Models; Applications to problems in soils, aquifers, mining and oil reservoirs.
  • ResearchGate

Ph.D. Arturo Erdely-Ruíz

Full-time “C” Professor, Actuarial Science Programme, Faculty of Advanced Studies Acatlán - UNAM.
email: arturo.erdely@comunidad.unam.mx

  • PhD in Mathematics (Statistics).
  • Main Research Interests: Copula functions and their application in the construction of probability models for dependent random variables.
  • Personal webpage

Ph.D. Ricardo Casar-González

Consultant Geologist in Geostatistics Applied to Natural Resources.
email: rcasar@yahoo.com.mx

  • Main Research Interests: Geostatistics applied to geosciences. Geological-petrophysical modelling of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Characterisation and evaluation of mineral resources. Modelling and evaluation of contaminated sites.

Ph.D. Arturo Ortíz-Tapia

Researcher
email: aortiztapia2013@gmail.com

  • Main Research Interests: Conceptual, mathematical and computational modelling, applied to continuous systems.

Ph.D. Manuel Romero-Salcedo

Scientific researcher in the Exploration Department at the Mexican Petroleum Institute.
email: mromeros@imp.mx

  • Main Research Interests: Intelligent Systems for Reservoir Characterization, soft computing, Artificial Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Image processing.
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate

Ph.D. Armando Altamira-Areyán

Coordinator of the University Seminar on Hydrocarbon Research, UNAM
email: armando.altamira@cnh.gob.mx

  • Main Research Interests: Sedimentology and stratigraphy of sandy-clay deposits (continental and deep-water marine environments), Study of the interaction between the South American and Caribbean tectonic plates.
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate
  • Resume

Ph.D. Ana Teresa Mendoza-Rosas

Professor CONACYT, Commissioner at the Institute for Research in Earth Sciences (INICIT), University Michoacana of San Nicolás de Hidalgo.
email: ana.t.mendoza.r@gmail.com

  • MSc and PhD in Earth Science.
  • Main Research Interests: Hazard, volcanic risk and development of new methodologies for forecasting eruptions.
  • ResearchGate

Ph.D. Van Huong LE

Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware
email: levanhuong15011989@gmail.com

  • Main Research Interests: Geostatistical (spatial stochastic) simulation based on copulas and global optimization methods (simulated annealing, differential evolution).
  • GitHub
  • Linkedin
  • ResearchGate

Ph.D. Alfredo Garbuno-Iñigo

Academic Director of the Msc in Data Science and Assistant Professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).
email: alfredo.garbuno@itam.mx

  • Professor of the courses of the Department of Statistics and of the Master's Degree in Data Science at the ITAM.
  • Main Research Interests: Bayesian inverse problems, data assimilation, nonparametric Bayesian methods, stochastic processes, and stochastic differential equations.
  • Climate Modelling Alliance (CliMA) project collaborator (data assimilation and uncertainty quantification for complex simulators).
  • Personal page

Ph.D. Ernesto Rubio-Acosta

Titular Academic Technician B TC Definitive, Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute, UNAM
email: <>

  • Main Research Interests: Computer science, interdisciplinary applications Engineering, biomedical Geochemistry and geophysics Physics, multidisciplinary Applied mathematics, Biomedical Engineering Engineering (miscellaneous) Geophysics Health informatics Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Ph.D. Raúl del Valle-García

Researcher
email: <>

Ph.D. Olev Gurevich Titov

Researcher
email: <>

Collaborators

Dr. Antonio Carrillo Ledesma

Doctor en Ciencias de la Tierra por la UNAM, en el área de Modelación Matemática y Computacional de Sistemas Terrestres
email: antonio@mmc.geofisica.unam.mx

Dr. Edscott Wilson García

Investigador científico
email: edscott@imp.mx

Dr. Arturo Reyes Romero

Investigador científico
email: artrero77@gmail.com

  • Líneas de investigación Dinámica de ondas de calor que se propagan en medios porosos, Modelación matemática y numérica de modelos geo mecánicos a escala de núcleo con fracturas

Dr. Francisco Mendoza Torres

Investigador científico
email: mentofran@gmail.com

  • Software development for real time predictive analytics in the upstream oil and gas industry
  • Linkedin
  • GitHub
  • Resume

Dr. Alejandro Alonzo García

Cátedra CONACYT-Centro de Ingenieria y Desarrollo Industrial Unidad Campeche (Cátedra CONACYT-CIDESI-Unidad Campeche)
email: alejandro_1980@hotmail.com

  • Estimación de propiedades de flujo en medios porosos simplificados y realistas en los regímenes Darcianos, laminares y turbulentos
  • Control de la capa límite turbulenta
  • Diseño de Reactores Agitados mediante Dinámica de Fluidos Computacionales
  • Resume

Dra. Anabel Hernández Ramirez

Universidad de las Américas Puebla y Universidad Anáhuac Puebla (Profesor tiempo parcial)
email: anabel.hernandez@udlap.mx

  • El principal interés es el desarrollo de modelos matemáticos, numéricos y computacionales de sistemas continuos
  • Ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias aplicadas al problema de la circulación sanguínea (biomedicina)
  • Ecuaciones diferenciales parciales aplicadas al problema de flujo bifásico en medios porosos para la simulación de procesos de desplazamiento de campo de fuerzas de una centrífuga (petrofísica)
  • Resume

Dr. Jorge Adrián Perera Burgos

Cátedras Conacyt-Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Unidad de Ciencias del Agua
email: jorge.perera@cicy.mx

  • Modelación analítica y numérica de fluidos y contaminantes en medios porosos. Pruebas de presión y trazadores. Caracterización geofísica e hidrogeológica de acuíferos subterráneos
  • Personal website

Dr. Eduardo Campos Sepúlveda

Investigador científico
email: <>

M.Sc. Heber Hernández Guerra

Es ingeniero civil de minas, master en minería y estudiante de doctorado de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, director general e investigador en Nube Minera e Ingeniería SPA
email: heber@nubeminera.cl

B. Sc. José Cristóbal Rojas Castillo

José Cristóbal Rojas Castillo is a Geologist, based in Sinaloa, Mexico. He has 13 years of experience in the mining industry. He possesses an excellent understanding of economic geology, geological prospecting and exploration of precious and base metals, as well as non-metallic mineral deposits, open pit and underground mining, resource estimation and mineral reserves, Geostatistics, mine planning and evaluation of mining projects, Strong familiarity with international resource/reserve reporting codes. Is proficient in using various mining packages
email: cristobalroj@hotmail.com

Dr. Ouorou Ganni Mariel Guera

Sólida formación en manejo y aprovechamiento forestal, estadística aplicada, diseño de experimentos,modelación matemática con técnicas tradicionales y de Machine Learning en ciencias biológicas y agrarias
email: gueraforest@gmail.com

Dr. Victor Miguel Hernández Maldonado

Profesor Investigador Ingeniero Tecnólogo Titular “A” ITA, de tiempo completo en INFOTEC, Centro de Investigación especializado en el desarrollo de tecnologías de la información y comunicación
email: victor.hernandezm@infotec.mx

  • Principales Intereses de Investigación Mejoramiento en el desempeño computacional del modelado con Cópulas Multivariadas No Paramétricas, Aplicación de la teoría de cópulas en el modelado de la estructura de dependencia entre variables aleatorias con relación no lineal
  • Geoestadística aplicada a geociencias
  • Modelado geológico-petrofísico de yacimientos petroleros
  • Modelado tridimensional de prótesis maxilofaciales por estereolitografía y su impresión 3D
  • ResearchGate

Ph.D. Mario Enrique Vadillo-Sáenz

Researcher
email: marioevsz@gmail.com

  • Main Research Interests: Reservoir Simulation, Borehole Mechanical Stability

Ph.D. Daniel Vázquez-Ramírez

Researcher
email: daniel.geofisico89@comunidad.unam.mx

M.Eng. Edgar G. Martínez-Mendoza

Petroleum Engineer
email: edgarg.martinezm@gmail.com

  • Main Research Interests: Pore-scale modeling via the pore network approach

M.Sc. Mario Noyola-Rodríguez

B.Sc. in Mathematics
email: estaduagro@hotmail.com

  • M.Sc. in Earth Sciences at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM in the area of Earth System Modeling in collaboration with the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP)

M.Sc. Rosario Pacheco Serrano

Geological Engineer
email: ros.pach.ser@gmail.com

  • M.Sc. in hydrocarbon exploration at Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP)

M.Sc. Yarilis Gómez Martínez

Geophysical Engineer
email: yarilisgm@gmail.com

PhD Students

M.Sc. Sinai Morales-Chávez

PhD student
email: geomorales91@gmail.com

  • Ph.D. student in hydrocarbon exploitation at Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP)
  • Main Research Interests: Petrophysics, Hydrogeology, Flow and transport modeling in porous media
  • GitHub
  • Linkedin
  • ResearchGate

M.Eng. Jesus Manuel Carmona-Pérez

PhD student
email: carmona.jesus.94@gmail.com

  • Ph.D. student in hydrocarbon exploitation at Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP)
  • M.Eng. in Enviromental Engineering and Sustainable Development at UPAEP
  • Main Research Interests: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR), Low Salinity Water Flooding (LSWF)

M.Sc. Juan E. Linares-Pérez

PhD student
email: eduardo_linares@comunidad.unam.mx

  • Ph.D. student at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • Master's thesis in Earth Sciences at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM in the area of Earth System Modeling in collaboration with the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP).

M.Sc. Javier Méndez-Venegas

PhD student
email: lemendez84@yahoo.com.mx

  • Ph.D. student at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

M.Sc. Andrea Rojas-Pardo

PhD student
email: arojasp@alumnos.ucn.cl

  • Researcher at Catholic University of the North (UCN), Antofagasta, Chile

M.Sc. Carla D. Ayala-García

PhD student
email: daniellaayala@ciencias.unam.mx

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics, School of Sciences, UNAM (2008)

Master Students

Eng. Zaira Anel Licona Caselin

Geophysical Engineer
email: anel.licona@hotmail.com

  • Geophysical engineer from IPN
  • Master's student in Exploration Engineering for Oil and Gas at UNAM
  • Main Research Interests: Modeling and simulation in terrigenous reservoirs
  • LinkedIn
  • Resume

Eng. Carlos A. Romano-Pérez

Petroleum Engineer
email: carlos_alberto@comunidad.unam.mx

  • Master’s student in the Engineering Postgraduate Program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
  • Advisor: Martín A. Díaz-Viera
  • Main Research Interests: Discrete fracture models in EOR simulations
  • ResearchGate

Eng. Javier A. Estrada-Santos

Petroleum Engineer
email: javierestradasantos@gmail.com

  • Main Research Interests: Flow and transport modeling with adsorption in porous media

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