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Roland Horne (Professor)

Roland Horne (650) 723-9595
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Personal bio
Roland N. Horne is the Thomas Davis Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Geothermal Program. He is best known for his work in well test interpretation, production optimization, and tracer analysis of fractured geothermal reservoirs. So far in his academic career he has supervised the graduate research of 60 PhD and 120 MS students, including about 60 in geothermal topics. He served on the International Geothermal Association (IGA) Board 1998-2001, 2001-2004, and 2007-2010, and was the 2010-2013 President of IGA. He was Technical Program Chairman of the World Geothermal Congress 2005 in Turkey, 2010 in Bali, Melbourne in 2015, and again in Iceland in 2020-2021. Roland is one of the founders of the IGA online database of geothermal conference papers. Roland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is also a Fellow of the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo and an Honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum – East China.

Currently teaching
ENGR 120: Mass and Energy Transport in Porous Media (Winter)
ENERGY 201B: Fundamentals of Energy Processes (Winter)
ENERGY 120: Mass and Energy Transport in Porous Media (Winter)
EE 293B: Fundamentals of Energy Processes (Winter)
ENERGY 351: ESE Master's Graduate Seminar (Winter)
ENERGY 352: ESE PhD Graduate Seminar (Winter)
ENERGY 269: Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (Spring)
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