Welcome New Faculty Affiliates

 
The EMS Energy Institute welcomes the following principal investigators and faculty associates who have joined the EMS Energy Institute for research support and collaborations in the last year. As our research team continues to grow, the EMS Energy Institute anticipates many new projects that will broaden the scope of our research and enhance our ability to provide training and outreach.

Samuel A. Oyewole 
Assistant Professor 
Environmental Health and Safety Engineering

Dr. Oyewole earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2009 and joined Penn State as an instructor of industrial health and safety. Dr. Oyewole was appointed assistant professor of Environmental Health and Safety Engineering in July 2010. His research expertise includes global safety and health management, nuclear safety and risk management, human health risk/exposure assessment, ergonomics/human factors engineering, hazard and risk management, quantitative methods in safety intervention and resource allocation methods. Dr. Oyewole’s current research includes global environmental health and safety management, pipeline safety and risk management, and environmental risk/exposure assessment of human health-related hazards in the Mississippi and Niger Delta regions. He is also evaluating various optimization methods for improving cost effectiveness and reducing incident rates in safety and health intervention resource allocation decision-making.

Russell T. Johns 
Professor 
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Dr. Johns’ work focuses on enhanced oil recovery, unconventional gas recovery, geothermal energy, well testing, and the theory of gas injection processes. Before coming to Penn State, Dr. Johns served on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he has nine years of industrial experience as a petrophysical engineer with Shell Oil and as a consulting engineer for Colenco Power Consulting in Baden, Switzerland. His current research projects include experimental studies of surfactant flooding of live crude oil as well as the development of numerical simulation codes for Middle Eastern oil fields. In addition, Dr. Johns directs the Gas Flooding Joint Industry Project at the EMS Energy Institute, which conducts industry-led research on gas flooding for enhanced oil recovery.