Martin Blunt is Professor of Flow in Porous Media in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. He has an MA and PhD in Physics from Cambridge University. He worked for BP as a Research Reservoir Engineer from 1988-1992. From 1992 he was Assistant and then Associate Professor at Stanford University until 1999 when he joined Imperial College.
Professor Blunt's research interests are in flow in porous media, combining micro-fluidics and high-resolution imaging with pore-scale modelling to study recovery and storage processes with application to carbon dioxide sequestration, hydrogen energy storage, hydrology, geothermal energy, and the design of reactors and other porous materials. He has written two textbooks and over 300 scientific papers on his work.
Proessor Blunt has been awarded the Darcy Award from the Society of Core Analysts (2012), the President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching (2016), the Erasmus Award, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (2017), and Honorary Lifetime Membership, International Society of Porous Media (2018). He was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Professional position
- Professor of Flow in Porous Media, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
Subject groups
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Astronomy and Physics
Condensed matter incl softmatter, liquids, nano-materials
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Engineering and Materials Science
Fluid dynamics
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Hydrology
