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Professor Martin Blunt has been presented with a lifetime achievement award by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.

The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) presented Professor Martin Blunt with the their most prestigious prize, at their .  The award is presented each year to a geoscientist or engineer in recognition of a career of outstanding and lasting achievements in the field of resource exploration and development.

In EAGE commended Professor Blunt’s work “Martin has made internationally recognised contributions to reservoir engineering across length-scales and applications.  He has pioneered pore-network models too understand multiphase flow in porous media.  He has redefined the field of pore-scale modelling in geologic materials.”

Professor Martin Blunt has worked at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø for 18 years and is the current Chair in Petroleum Engineering in the . He is also the Director of the Qatar Carbonate and Carbon Storage Research Centre, a 10 year, $70 million strategic collaboration between the College, Qatar Petroleum, Shell and the Qatar Science and Technology Park.

“I am truly humbled and honoured to have received this award from the EAGE” said Professor Blunt said “Over the years I have been blessed to have worked with truly remarkable people from around the world, I’ve also had the privilege to teach really exceptional and talented students and if it wasn’t for them, and everything that I’ve learnt from them, I wouldn’t be able to do the research that I am doing now.”

Professor Blunt's research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with applications to oil and gas recovery, geological carbon storage and contaminant transport and clean-up in polluted aquifers. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale modelling of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He is on the editorial boards of three academic journals , and and has recently published a new book .

The Erasmus Award is one of the annual prizes awarded by the EAGE and is considered the highest and most prestigious of the 12.