Saman Aryana

BIO

• Occidental Chair in Energy and Environmental Technologies
• Professor and Head, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Honors and Awards

• DOE EFRC – Mechanistic Control of Water-Hydrocarbon-Rock interactions in Nanoporous Geological Media, co-PI (2018)
• Best Paper Award (1st CAJG), Springer (2018)
• Magnificent Mile (Diversity) Award, University of Wyoming (2018)
• NSF Noyce - Wyoming Interns to Teacher Scholars, co-PI (2016)
• PRF- DNI grant, American Chemical Society (2015)
• Top Prof, Cap and Gown Chapter of Mortar Board, University of Wyoming (2015)
• Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering (2013)
• Robert M. and Ann. T. Bass Fellowship, Stanford University (2007-2012)
• Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (2009)
• Best Master’s Thesis Award, The Masonry Society (2006)
• Construction Research Center Graduate Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2005)
• Arthur R. Poor Graduate Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2004)
• Ernest L. Buckley Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2003)
• Charlie M. Moore Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2002)
• Tau Beta Pi, University of Texas - Arlington (2002)
• Chi Epsilon, University of Texas - Arlington (2002)

Education

• Ph.D., Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering (2012)
• M.S., University of Texas - Arlington, Civil Engineering - Structures & Applied Mechanics (2006)
• B.S., University of Texas - Arlington, Civil Engineering - Summa Cum Laude (2003)

Other Education & Licensure

• Professional Engineer (Inactive) - Texas No. 101924, 2008 - present.
• Summer Institute of Entrepreneurship (SIE), Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2009.
• Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school), Summer Workshop, 2008.