Nagasree Garapati is a Visiting Assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at West Virginia University. She received her B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia University working on gas hydrates with Dr. Brian Anderson. During her PhD work, she was lead developer of an NETL multicomponent gas hydrate reservoir simulator originally in the TOUGH family, Mix3HydrateResSim. Garapati did her Post Doctorate in Department of Earth Sciences at University of Minnesota and also visited ETHZ- Zurich as an Academic Scholar working on CO2 Plume geothermal in Professor Martin Saar lab.
Selected honors/ awards
- 2020 Inaugural Award in Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, WVU.
- Nominated for Faculty Award for Distinction in Mentoring of Undergraduates in Research - 2020, 2019.
About Dr. Garapati’s Lab
Members of Dr. Garapati’s research group conducts research focused on numerical modeling of multi-phase multi-component fluid behavior across the scales.
Research Areas
- Natural Gas Hydrates
- Geothermal Energy
- CO2 Capture, utilization, and Storage (CCUS)