Marwan Charara

Biography

After receiving his MSc and PhD degrees in geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in 1996, Marwan joined Schlumberger Riboud Product center in Paris where he worked and supervised projects on borehole seismic interpretation, reservoir monitoring and control, permeability logging and wireless telemetry. In 2006, he moved to Schlumberger Moscow Research where he was in charge of the research program dedicated to multi-physics numerical modeling and full waveform inversion. At Skoltech, Marwan is actively engaged in the development of the Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery. He will be teaching courses related to petroleum engineering, especially in geophysics. He actively contributed in the conception of new generation borehole seismic tools and sonic logging tools. He is the inventor of a new logging tool based on the electrokinetic phenomena. Marwan holds more than ten patents, including method for a formation properties determination and method to monitor reservoir fracture development and its geometry. In 2014, he was promoted to Schlumberger Scientific Advisor in recognition for his outstanding and leading research role within the organization. Marwan has published over fifty technical papers in leading scientific research journals, such as Geophysics, Springer and Geophysical Prospecting. He is a member of such professional societies as American Geophysical Union, Society of Petroleum Engineers and European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers. Apart from his extensive research effort, Marwan has taught numerous courses on logging and formation evaluation.

Research Interest

Geophysical inverse problem and numerical modeling for unconventional hydrocarbon reservo