Theory and Practice in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery

Kun Sang Lee is currently a Professor in the Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University. He earned a BS in mineral and petroleum engineering and a MS in mineral and petroleum engineering, both from Seoul National University. He was previously an Assistant Professor and Professor at Kyonggi University and an Associate Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Geosystem Engineering and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Oil, Gas, and Coal Technology. He has published in many journals including Elsevier's Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.Tae-Hyuk Kwon is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology. He earned a PhD, M.Sc and B.Sc all from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His main research areas are in energy and sustainable geotechnology as well as coupled thermos-hydro-chemo-electro-biological processes in porous media and particulate materials. He was awarded Best Paper wards from the Korean Geotechnical Society and has authored several articles and presented at worldwide conferences. He has also earned one patent.Taehyung Park is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He earned a PhD and M.Sc both from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and he earned a B.Sc in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences from the University of Rochester. His main research areas are in mutli-phase fluids flow in porous media and bio-geo-chemical processes in soil-water systems. Taehyung has authored many papers and earned four patents.Moon Sik Jeong is currently PhD candidate at the Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University. Moon earned a B.S. and is currently working on his PhD, both in Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering from Hanyang University. He co-authored two books, has authored several articles and conference papers presented at worldwide conferences.