Prof. Riyaz Kharrat is a professor in the Department of Geoenergy at the Technical University of Leoben (Montanuniversität Leoben), Austria. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Prof. Kharrat has more than 30 years of academic and industrial experience in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), fractured carbonate reservoir characterization, and reservoir modeling and simulation. His current research interests include enhanced oil recovery, reservoir simulation, and waterflooding.