About John Valenza

20 years of industrial and academic research experience in the following areas: Technical Administration - Research portfolio management and administration - Progressing research to handoff including new product offering at SLB, and a field trial at XOM engineering facilities - Competitive intelligence and intellectual property strategy and implementation - Ideation and opportunity identification that leads to the creation of new projects and new teams - Identify, engage, and manage collaborations with external partners, especially academia - Communicating with, or preparing communications for executive management Technical Competencies - Physics of sensing: develop new ultrasound and EM sensing technologies to enable systems optimization (incl. data analytics) - Mechanics (solid, fluid, poro-, fracture, damage), and acoustics/elastodynamics (seismic, sonic, and ultrasonic) - Processing/microstructure/property relations: heterogeneous media, ceramic materials, porous media, granular media, cement - Thermodynamic and kinetic processes in materials (diffusion, chemical reaction, solidification, drying, adsorption) - Interfacial phenomena (confined fluids, thin films, polymer adsorption, colloidal systems)