​Congratulations to Professor Tad Patzek who was recently awarded the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Desiderius Erasmus award.

The Desiderius Erasmus Award is presented to a geoscientist or engineer in recognition of his/her outstanding and lasting achievements in the field of resource exploration and development.

The EAGE Awards Committee highlighted his "his renowned research into the fundamentals of multiphase flow in porous media with application to improved oil recovery, his predictions of productivity from shale gas formations, and his life-cycle analysis of biofuels. He is one of the few people active in the petroleum field, who are also sufficiently confident and expert to comment on environmental issues, fearlessly articulating the grave threats to the planet from climate change, deforestation and other environmental damage, while exposing the fallacies of many of the proposed solutions to these problems. He is an inspiring mentor and educator whose fierce intellectualism and unflinching pursuit of truth has won widespread admiration".