Silviu Livescu, PhD
Dr. Livescu is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a venture capital-backed company on a mission to transform the heating and cooling of buildings, using geothermal energy to radically reduce costs for people and the environment. A former tenured associate professor of Geoenergy Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, former pressure pumping chief scientist at Baker Hughes, former research engineer at ExxonMobil, former technical board director for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), former SPE distinguished lecturer, current editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s Geoenergy Science and Engineering (the former Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, the most cited oil, petroleum, and natural gas peer-reviewed journal on Google Scholar), and an SPE distinguished member, he has authored 41 U.S. patents and patent applications and more than 100 papers and articles. He has extensive product and technology research, development, and deployment experience in petroleum and geothermal well drilling and construction, including directional control, downhole telemetry, and real-time data acquisition and interpretation, and petroleum and geothermal resource characterization, simulation, and monitoring. He co-edited Elsevier’s book titled “Geothermal Energy Engineering: Technology Transfer with the Oil and Gas Industry”, was a lead author of the first-of-its-kind "Future of Geothermal in Texas" report, and has introduced the first geothermal engineering class at the University of Texas at Austin, with outstanding feedback from his students.
Dr. Livescu holds BS and MSc degrees from the University "Politecnica" of Bucharest, Romania, and a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware, and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University.