Faculty & Staff
Mirko van der Baan, PhD
Prof. Mirko van der Baan is the Co-Director of C-DaPS. He is a professor at the University of Alberta in the Department of Physics, specializing in Exploration Seismology. He graduated in 1996 from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, obtained a PhD with honors in 1999 from the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and then joined the University of Leeds, UK, where he became the Reader of Exploration Seismology. He also holds an HDR (Habilitation) from the University Denis Diderot, Paris, France. Previously he led the joint-industry project Blind Identification of Seismic Signals (BlISS), focusing on advanced statistical signal processing and technology/knowledge transfer to the hydrocarbon industry. He is one of the founding members of the Integrated Petroleum Geosciences (IPG) professional MSc program at the University of Alberta. Finally he was the 2017 Honorary Lecturer, North America, for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Juliana Leung, PhD, PEng
Dr. Juliana Leung is the Co-Director of the Consortium. She is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Alberta. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Data Analytics for Subsurface Flow Processes. She is also a registered professional engineer in Alberta. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calgary, a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her professional experiences include working as a reservoir engineer for over two years at Shell Canada Ltd. and summer internships at the Sandia National Laboratories and ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in Houston. She is currently supervising a team of more than ten graduate students, focusing on data analytics and modelling of subsurface fluid flow processes. She has (co)-authored over 170 journal and conference papers. She is the recipient of several teaching and research awards and serves as editor for several journals, including Geoenergy Science and Engineering and Applied Computing and Geosciences.
David Eaton, PhD
C-DaPS Affiliate Faculty
Our affiliate faculty members specialize in a wide range of academic disciplines.
Sven Anders, PhD
Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
University of Alberta
Lianne Lefsrud, PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
F. Albert Liu, PhD
Civil Engineering
McGill University
Renato Macciotta Pulisci, PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
Rebecca Swinscoe, PhD
Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada
Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary
Support Staff
Christian Pak, MPhil
Project Manager/Coordinator
cdaps@ualberta.ca
Supporting Areas:
- Operation of the Consortium
- Research Communications and Knowledge Translation
- General and Media Inquiries