Curriculum Vitae
Badie I. Morsi
Professor and Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program
Executive Director of the Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
940 Benedum Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Professor Morsi joined the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 1982 and is currently the Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program at the Swanson School of Engineering. He is also serving as the Executive Director of the Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference. Professor Morsi's research activities include different aspects of chemical, environmental, and petroleum engineering. His research focuses on the design and scaleup of multiphase reactors; modeling, simulation and optimization of industrial processes; CO2 capture from flue gas, fuel gas and natural gas streams using chemical and physical solvents; CO2 sequestration in depleted gas/oil reservoirs and unmineable coal seams; and enhanced oil recovery using CO2 and alcohols.
Professor Morsi has authored and co-authored many technical papers (see publications and proceedings) and has delivered with his research group numerous presentations and invited talks at different national and international meetings and leading organizations worldwide. Professor Morsi has been serving as a consultant to several major national and international organizations and as a reviewer to numerous prominent institutions and journals in chemical, environmental and petroleum engineering. He is also serving as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Clean Coal and Energy; and in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Chemical Engineering and the Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering.
Professor Morsi received many honors and awards, including the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Faculty Fellow (1999-2002) & (2005-2008); George M. and Eva M. Bevier Professorship (2001-2005); Mentor of the Year Award, Minority Engineering Program (2003); the Beitle-Veltri School of Engineering Teaching Award (1999); and the CNG Faculty Fellow (1991- 1995). He received his Bachelor Degree (BS, 1972) in Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and Diplôme des Études Approfondies, (MS, 1977), Doctorat d'Ingénieur (PhD, 1979) and Doctorat ès Sciences Physique (ScD, 1982) in Chemical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL) - Nancy, France.