Jeffrey Hyman honored with Fraunhofer Award

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Jeffrey Hyman

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The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore), on behalf of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), honored Jeffrey De’Haven Hyman (Computational Earth Science, EES-16) with the 2015 Award for Young Researchers. This award is presented to young researchers within three years after completing a PhD and who make outstanding research contributions in the areas of porous and composite materials modeling and computer simulation. The award recognized him as a leader in the accurate modeling of pore scale flow and transport in diverse and complex pore structures, as well as revealing subtle links between porous media structure and flow and transport dynamics. The InterPore Newsletter stated: “He is quickly becoming a critical reference person in the quickly evolving field of digital rock physics.”

Hyman received the award during the 2015 InterPore conference in Padova, Italy. As the award winner, Hyman has been invited to spend approximately three months on joint research at the Fraunhofer ITWM. The award includes a monthly stipend and travel expenses.

Hyman received a PhD in applied mathematics with a minor in hydrology and water resources from the University of Arizona. In 2015, he was awarded postdoc funding by the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) to pursue his research at the Lab. Hyman splits his time between CNLS and EES-16. His postdoc mentors are Hari Viswanathan (EES-16), Jamal Mohd-Yusof (Applied Computer Science, CCS-7), and Gowri Srinivasan (Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics, T-5). Hyman’s research in applied mathematics and subsurface hydrology has advanced the understanding of complex subsurface hydrological systems through creation of detailed physical simulations of flow in large, kilometer-scale, fracture networks and small, micrometer-scale, explicit pore microstructures using high performance computing. These simulations require the stochastic generation of realistic fracture networks and pore-structures based on geological data, one of Hyman’s specialties. He is a core developer of the computational software suite dfnWorks where his specialty is the generation of the fracture network and analysis of Lagrangian transport simulations. Technical contact: Jeffrey Hyman