Luis Zerpa is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. He holds the Harry D. Campbell Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Rock and Fluid Multiphysics. Luis earned his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zulia (Venezuela) and completed his PhD in Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Luis has been working on reservoir engineering-related projects in industry and academia for over 20 years. His research combines experimental and modeling evaluation of multiphysical properties of rocks and fluids, as well as their interactions with applications to petroleum reservoir engineering, geothermal, and geologic carbon sequestration (CCUS).