People
Dr. Zuleima Karpyn, Co-Director
Dr. Phillip M. Halleck, Associate Professor Emeritus
Tim Stecko, Research Support Technician
Dr. Zuleima Karpyn
Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
151 Hosler Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
PH: 814-863-2273 (office)
PH: 814-865-3806 (lab)
Dr. Karpyn is an associate professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching and research interests are reservoir characterization and multiphase transport phenomena in porous media, including applications in reservoir engineering, underground hydrology, and environmental remediation. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Universidad Central de Venezuela, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in petroleum and natural gas engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karpyn is a recipient of the 2005 Penn State Wilson Research Initiation Grant, 2008 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award granted by the National Science Foundation, and the 2010 Penn State Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is also Associate Editor for the Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, and an active member of the Society of Core Analysts and the American Geophysical Union.
Dr. Timothy Ryan
Department of Anthropology
409 Carpenter
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
PH: 814-865-1531 (office)
PH: 814-865-3806 (lab)
Dr. Ryan has a BA in Anthropology from the University of New Orleans (1994) and an MA (1997) and PhD (2001) in Biological Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, Geosciences, and Information Science and Technology as well as Co-Director of the Center for Quantitative Imaging. Dr. Ryan is interested in primate evolutionary morphology and, in particular, the relationship between bone form and locomotor behavior. His work makes extensive use of high-resolution CT and is particularly focused on the structural characterization, visualization, and finite element modeling of bone and other complex 3D structures.
Dr. Phillip M Halleck
204 Academic Activities
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
PH: 814-863-1701
Dr. Halleck holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Rochester (1967) and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of
Chicago (1973). He is an associate professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and is Co-Director of the Center for Quantitative
Imaging. He has taught courses in geology, geophysics, rock and fluid properties, well log analysis, and well production engineering.
Prior to his current seventeen-year tenure at Penn State, Dr Halleck spent ten years at the Los Alamos National Lab studying shock
initiation of explosives and various rock and geophysics related energy projects. He then spent periods on the geophysics faculty
at Penn State, at Schlumberger researching interactions of shaped charge perforators with reservoir rock, and at TerraTek working
on a variety of well completions research projects. His principle research focus is the application of X-ray CT to studies of multi-phase
fluid flow in deformed and deforming geologic materials.
Tim Stecko
0421 Forest Resources Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
PH: 814-865-8406
Tim Stecko holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Forestry from Penn State. He has extensive field and lab experience with a diversity of North American and African fish species. Tim manages daily operations of the CQI.