J. Carlos Santamarina

J. Carlos Santamarina (Professor - KAUST) graduated from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and completed graduate studies at the Universities of Maryland and Purdue. He taught at NYU-Polytechnic, the University of Waterloo and at Georgia Tech before joining KAUST in 2015. His research centers on the science of geomaterials and engineering solutions to address global energy challenges, with contributions from resource recovery to energy and waste geostorage. He delivered the 50th Terzaghi Lecture on Energy Geotechnology, was a British Geotechnical Association Touring Lecturer, and is member of both Argentinean National Academies. Former team members are professors at more than forty universities, researchers at national laboratories, or practicing engineers at leading organizations worldwide.