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Managment
Managment
Dr. Jagos Radovic, Research Associate Professor & Director
Expertise: Analytical Chemistry; Environmental & Organic Geochemistry; Oil Fingerprinting & Oil Spill Forensics; Chromatography; UHR Mass Spectrometry – Petroleomics, Lipidomics
Email: jradovic@uh.edu Phone: (713) 743-8866
Dr. Adry Bissada, Research Professor & Founding Director
Expertise: Geology; Petroleum Geochemistry; Basin Modeling; Conventional & Unconventional Petroleum Systems
Email: kbissada@uh.edu
Technical Staff
Technical Staff
Dr. Thomas Malloy, Research Professor
Expertise: Oil Fingerprinting; GC/MS; GC/MS-MS; Shale-play analysis; Pyrolysis-GC(/MS)
Email: tbmalloy@uh.edu
Dr. Joe Curiale, Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Petroleum and Source Rock Geochemistry; Molecular and Isotopic Characterizations and Correlations
Email: joecuriale1@gmail.com
Mike Darnell, Senior Geochemical Analyst
Expertise: Hydrous & Anhydrous Pyrolysis; Organic Petrology; GC; GC/MS; Pyrolysis GC(/MS)
Email: mdarnell@uh.edu
Maria Gutierrez, Geochemical Analyst
Expertise: TOC; TOS; RockEval Pyrolysis; Bitumen Extraction
Email: mmgutierrez@uh.edu
Dr. Tao Sun, Research Scientist
Expertise: Stable Isotope (CHNSO) Geochemistry; GC/MS/IRMS; Ultra-pure kerogen w CPD; FIB-SEM imaging
Email: tsun9@uh.edu
Jeffery Wright, Senior Analytical Chemist
Expertise: GC; GC/MS analysis and method development; Hardware and software application support
Email: jwright5@uh.edu
Students
Students
Poorna Srinivasan, PhD student
Thesis Research: Geochemical constraints on the generation and kinetics of natural energy resources
Email: psriniv7@cougarnet.uh.edu
Kyra Bennett, MSc student
Thesis Research: Data science workflows for petroleum geochemistry fingerprinting
Email: kabenne4@uh.edu
Pauline Nguyen, BSc student, 2025 Energy Scholar
Research Project: Stabilizing the Climate from the Ground Up: Soil Carbon Storage in Coastal Prairie Ecosystems
Email: pvnguy28@cougarnet.uh.edu
Alumni
Alumni
Daniella Gutierrez, PhD 2024; Currently - Chevron
Thesis Research: (1) High-resolution detection of carbazole species molecules using GC-MS/MS; (2) Geochemical back-calculation and UEP modeling of source rock type sections across Venezuela (Maracaibo and Serrania del Interior), Trinidad (Gulf of Paria and Southern Basin), and Guyana-Suriname (nearshore sections and Demerara Plateau).
Email: dngutier@uh.edu
Ana Vielma, PhD 2025
Thesis Research: New Perspectives in Deepwater Environments: Petroleum Geochemistry of the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin
Email: amvielma@uh.edu
Collaborators
Collaborators
Dr. Jack Casey, Professor Emeritus
Dr. Yongjun Gao, Research Associate Professor
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