Michael Celia

Biography

 Michael A. Celia is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. He is also the Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies. Prof. Celia received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College in 1978, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1979, and a PhD from Princeton in 1983. In 1985 he joined the faculty of M.I.T., and in 1989 he returned to Princeton to join the Civil Engineering Faculty. Professor Celia’s areas of research include groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology, numerical modeling, contaminant transport simulation, and multiphase flow in porous media, with applications focused on ecohydrology in water-limited ecosystems and on large-scale geological sequestration of CO2. Professor Celia served for 10 years as editor of the journal Advances in Water Resources. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), recipient of the 2005 AGU Hydrologic Sciences Award, and was the 2008 Darcy Lecturer for the National Groundwater Association (title of the lecture: Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option). As a contributing author for the IPCC Working Group III Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, Professor Celia shares, with many colleagues, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009 he, along with Jan Nordbotten and Mark Dobossy, started up Geological Storage Consultants, LLC as a mechanism to bring the promising research at Princeton to the CCS industry.

Research Interest

Civil and Environmental Engineering