Evgeny M Chuvilin

Chuvilin Evgeny Mikhailovich born in 1958, Ph.D. Geology (1984), Associate Professor, Leading Research Scientist at the Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech).

In 1980 Chuvilin E.M. graduated Geocryology Department of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University. From 1980 to 1983 he continued the study as a Ph.D. student at the Geological Faculty. After successful graduation, he was assigned to the Department of Geocryology of Moscow State University, where he worked as a Junior Research Scientist (1983-1987), Research Scientist (1987-1988), Assistant (1988-1989), and Leading Research Scientist (1989-1993). From 1993 to 2018, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Geocryology, where he developed and taught a number of training courses dedicated to general geocryology, physical chemistry and petrography of frozen rocks, gases and gas hydrates in the permafrost zone, and also conducted practical exercises on these courses. Along with working at Moscow State University for part-time work at 0.5 rates, he worked as Senior Research Scientist at the Schlumberger Moscow Research Center (2006-2015), as well as a Leading Research Scientist at the Skoltech Hydrocarbon Production Center (2014-2017). From 2018 to the present, he has been working full-time as a Leading Research Scientist at the Skoltech Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery. He has the title of Senior Researcher (1993), the title of Associate Professor (1994), Honored Associate Professor of the Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of the Academy of Sciences of China (1992), five times was awarded the title Soros Associate Professor (1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001).

The area of scientific interests of Chuvilin E.M. is physical chemistry and petrography of frozen and hydrate saturated rocks, gases and gas hydrates in the permafrost zone, experimental modeling of hydrate and ice formation processes in rocks, investigation of the properties of frozen and hydrate saturated rocks, migration of organic and mineral pollutants in the permafrost zone. With his participation and under his leadership, experimental technologies have been developed to study the processes of ice and hydrate formation in freezing and frozen rocks and their influence on the properties of rocks. He was a participant in the discovery of the self-preservation effect of gas hydrates at low temperatures (1988). Chuvilin E.M. has more than 400 publications (including articles in high-ranking journals, paragraphs, and sections in monographs and textbooks), as well as 21 patents for inventions. Currently, he has the following scientific activity indices Scopus -30, WoS -26.

Chuvilin E.M. was the head of many grants of the Russian Federal Property Fund, Russian Science Foundation, CRDF, as well as Russian and international scientific projects, including projects with Gazprom, Total, and the Geological Survey of Canada. He repeatedly traveled abroad to participate in joint scientific research, conferences, and seminars (USA, Canada, Japan, China, UK, Norway, Germany, Belgium, etc.). In 1996, he worked for several months in Canada (Carleton University and the Geological Survey of Canada), where he was engaged in gas hydrate research. A year and a half (2001-2002) he worked in the Gas Hydrate Laboratory at The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Sapporo).