Occupation chemical engineer | Name Tadeusz Patzek | |
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Food and Agrofuels
Tadeusz "Tad" W. Patzek is a Polish-born engineer.
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Tad Patzek is the Director of the Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (NPERC) and a Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The focus of his research is mathematical modeling of earth systems with an emphasis on multiphase fluid flow physics and rock mechanics.
Life
Patzek obtained his M.S. in 1974 in Chemical Engineering from the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, where he also completed his Ph.D. in 1979. From 1981 to 1983 he did research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Chemical Engineering Department where he had already been in 1978 as a Fulbright Fellow.
After years as a researcher at Shell Development, Patzek became a Professor of Geoengineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. In 2008, he became Cockrell Family Regents Chair #11 Professor of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin[1][2].