Rosalind Archer | |
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| Born | Rosalind Ann Archer |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Hydrocarbon and geothermal modelling |
| Institutions | Griffith University |
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| Doctoral advisor | Roland Horne |
Rosalind Ann Archer is a New Zealand academic. She is currently Head of the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University. [1]
After a 2000 PhD titled 'Computing flow and pressure transients in heterogeneous media using boundary element methods' at Stanford University, Archer moved to Texas A&M University and then to the University of Auckland in 2002, rising to full professor in 2013. [2] [3] In 2013 she also became head of the University of Auckland's Department of Engineering Science. [2] She held the Mercury / Mighty River Power Chair in Geothermal Reservoir Engineering from 2013 to 2018. [2]
She won the Society of Petroleum Engineers Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty (Asia Pacific Region) in 2011, and was the first New Zealand-based engineer to be awarded the position of "distinguished member" of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2015. In 2016, she won the Deloitte Energy Engineer of the Year award. [3] She is a Fellow of Engineering NZ [4] was elected deputy president of that organisation in 2020. [5] In March 2021, she was elected president of Engineering New Zealand. [6] In December 2021, Rosalind took up a new role as Head of the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University in Queensland. [7]
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