Stefan Bachu, Ph.D.

Dr. Stefan Bachu is the Distinguished Scientist, CO2 Storage at the Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures (formerly Alberta Research Council). He has spent over a decade researching carbon storage and over 20 years researching subsurface flow of fluids and heat in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. He is a member of the Canadian federal government's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) panel for greenhouse gas mitigation, member of the technical working group of the Canada-Alberta ecoEnergy Task Force on CCS, Canadian representative on the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) technical committee where he chaired the task force on CO2 storage capacity estimation and member of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Task Force on CO2 Storage, representing ERCB and Canada. Dr. Bachu is also Associate Editor for CO2 Geological Storage of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control and has published more than 150 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and made more than 230 presentations at various conferences and symposia, of which almost half are on the subject of CO2 geological storage. For 15 years, Dr. Bachu was head of the energy section of the Alberta Geological Survey, which was part of ARC before it was transferred in 1996 to ERCB. Dr. Bachu received his doctorate in civil engineering at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA), Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and the American Geophysical Union. He has also been an adjunct professor at both the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta.