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Steven Bryant is the university’s first Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and will lead the exploration for new and sustainable ways to develop unconventional oil reservoirs by taking advantage of advances in materials science.

Dr. Bryant has led the way in the fields of digital petrophysics and nanoparticles for engineering applications, and has made some of the most significant advances in the past 20 years in porous media modelling, reactive transport theory and CO2 sequestration. Dr. Bryant spent 13 years in industry, from 1986 to 1999, and has been in the world of academia since 1994, most recently at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also consulted for various companies between 2004 and 2012. He has been published 118 times in refereed journal publications, made 158 conference presentations and has had 199 conference proceedings published. Over his career, he has led major research initiatives involving industry partnership and trained over 90 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have found positions in several of the largest energy companies and national laboratories.