Dario Grana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and in the School of Energy Resources. He received a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Milano in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2013. He is co-author of the book ’Seismic Reflections of Rock Properties’, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. He is the recipient of the 2017 EAGE Van Weelden Award, the 2016 SEG Karcher Award, and the 2015 Best Paper Award in Mathematical Geosciences. His main research interests are rock physics, geostatistics, and inverse problems for subsurface modeling. As a Faculty Fellow, Dr. Grana is committed to work on projects on institutional data focusing on academic parameters for excellence in research. Dr. Grana aims to collect, estimate, and analyze statistical estimators that are representative of the research productivity. The results will be compared to the data from other institutions with similar national ranking of University of Wyoming.