Technical Staff

Expertise

Adry Bissada, CPG Director [email protected] 713.818.7544

Geology; Petroleum Geochemistry; Basin Modeling; Conventional & Unconventional Petroleum Systems

Jagos Radovic, CPG Co-director, Research Associate Professor [email protected]

Analytical Chemistry; Environmental & Organic Geochemistry; Oil Fingerprinting & Oil Spill Forensics; Chromatography; Mass Spectrometry – Petroleomics, Lipidomics

Thomas B. Malloy, Senior Scientist [email protected]

Oil Fingerprinting; GC/MS; GC/MS-MS; Shale-play anal.; Pyrolysis GC; Pyrolysis GC/MS

Mike Darnell

Sr. Geochemical Analyst [email protected] 713.743.3432

Hydrous & Anhydrous Pyrolysis; Organic Petrology; GC; GC/MS; Pyrolysis GC & Pyrolysis- GC/MS

Joseph A Curiale, Adjunct Professor

[email protected]  832-940-8013

Petroleum and Source Rock Geochemistry

Molecular and Isotopic Characterizations and Correlations

Tao Sun, Research Scientist [email protected] 713.743.1415

Stable Isotope (CHNSO) Geochem.; GC/MS/IRMS; Ultra-pure kerogen w CPD; FIB-SEM imaging

Mei Lee, Research Scientist [email protected]  

Multi-dimensional Gas Chromatography & HR Mass Spectroscopy

Maria Gutierez, Geochemical Analyst [email protected] 713-743-1649

TOC; TOS; RockEval Pyrolysis; Bitumen Extraction

Jeffery C. Wright, Senior Analytical Chemist [email protected] 281-989-1160

GC; GC/MS analysis and method development; Hardware and software application support

Collaborating Scientists

Expertise

John F. Casey, Professor [email protected] 713.743.2824

Oil Fingerprinting; Multi-element analysis; Triple quad. ICP-MS and ICP-OES; Vanadium isotopes

Yongjun Gao, Associate Professor [email protected] 713.743.4382

Extra-low Sulfur abundance in condensates & crude oils by microwave digestion and triple- quadrupole ICP-MS

Qi Fu, Assistant Professor [email protected]

Organic Geochemistry