Biographical Highlights

  • Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, 2023-25 (part-time)
  • (co) Executive Editor, Groundwater, 2022-2024
  • Visiting sabbatical professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), 2022
  • Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer, the Groundwater Foundation, 2021-2022. Click here for lecture titles (Darcy Lectures).
  • Professeur Invité, Toulouse Paul-Sabatier University/French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, June-July, 2019
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017
  • Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America, 2016-present
  • Fulbright Scholarship to Norway, University of Oslo (2009)
  • Research Fellow, Okayama University, Japan (2005, 2010)
  • Guest Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) - Zurich, Switzerland (2008)
  • Sabbatical Professor, University of California - Berkeley (2008)
  • The John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award, National Ground Water Association (2006)
  • Lilly Freshman Learning Project Fellow (teaching), Indiana University, 2006-
  • Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2005-
  • Associate and Full Professor of Geological Sciences, Indiana University - Bloomington (2004-2011, 2011-, respectively)
  • Guest Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)-Zurich, Switzerland (2004)
  • Senior Associateship Award, National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences (2003)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Critical minerals, CO2 removal and storage, climate change mitigation, water resources, thermodynamics and kinetics, geochemical modeling, water-rock-gas-microbe interactions