Jaber Al Jaberi is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR), College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Previously, he he worked for three years as lab engineer, and two years as teaching assistance in KFUPM. Jaber has two patents and several publications in distinctive journals and conferences. He served as vice president for SPE and SPWLA – KFUPM Chapters, and he is an active member in different societies.  

Dr. Ahmed Fatah joined the Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR) in June 2023 as a Postdoctoral Researcher, the College of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. His research interest focuses on carbon dioxide & hydrogen geological storage, and chemical EOR, in which he authored multiple technical and review papers. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Curtin University, a MSc and BSc degrees from University Technology PETRONAS, all in Petroleum Engineering. During his doctoral research, Dr. Fatah investigated the possibility of CO₂ storage in shale formations, and he gained wide expertise in geo-energy storage applications, in terms of rock/gas interactions, contact angle evaluation, and geochemical modelling. Currently, he is involved in many collaborative research studies with Curtin University (Australia & Malaysia) and Saudi Aramco.

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ytner1wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Research Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Fatah

Currently, I’m part of the petrophysics group in CIPR. Before joining CIPR, I obtained my PhD from The University of Melbourne, Australia. My work was part of GeoCQuest project, involving a close collaboration between the three leading universities: Stanford, Cambridge and Melbourne. My research targeted generating upscaled rate-dependent anisotropic saturation functions for meso-scale heterogeneity through analyzing multi-phase flow in fluvio-deltaic Parraatte formation at the CO2CRC’s Otway International Test Centre, Australia. In 2018, I obtained my master degree in Petroleum Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Dr. Ngouangna Eugene Ngwana is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR). His previous research focused on chemical EOR using nanoparticles, chemical treatments for improving sand agglomeration as a proactive method to minimize sand generation during oil production, CO₂ storage through surfactant-based foam systems, and mitigation of CO₂ leakage pathways using advanced polymeric gels. He is actively involved in developing surfactant–nanoparticle formulations to accelerate CO₂ mineralization for permanent geological carbon storage. Dr. Ngwana is a registered Professional Technologist (Ts.) in Oil and Gas Technology with the Malaysian Board of Technologists (MBOT) since 2024 and a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, since 2024.

Dr. Wafa Maftuhin earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2023. He then joined the University of California, Riverside as a postdoctoral researcher, working on large-scale molecular simulations and method development in DFTB. His research lies at the intersection of physics, chemistry, and computation, with a focus on electronic structure theory and functional materials.