Prof. Emmanuel Detournay

Emmanuel Detournay is currently the Theodore W. Bennett Chair Professor in Mining Engineering and Rock Mechanics in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering of the University of Minnesota (UMN). He holds a mining engineering degree from the University of Liège, Belgium and MSc and PhD degrees in Geoengineering from the UMN. Prior to joining the UMN faculty in 1993, he held various positions in consulting companies (Itasca, Minneapolis, MN; Agbabian Associates, El Segundo, CA) and in R&D (Dowell-Schlumberger, Tulsa, OK; Schlumberger, Cambridge, England). His expertise is in petroleum geomechanics, with two research focuses: drilling mechanics (bit/rock interaction, self-excited drilling vibrations, drillstring/borehole interaction, and directional drilling) and mechanics of fluid-driven fractures (asymptotic analysis, scaling, numerical modeling). He has co-authored about 160 papers in refereed publications. He has also been awarded 8 U.S. patents and has received several scientific awards for his work. In 2016, he was elected into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Since 2022, he has been serving as Director of the DOE sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center on Geo-Processes in Mineral Carbon Storage.