Adeshina Badejo

Adeshina Badejo is a PhD student in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University, working within the Subsurface Engineering for Sustainable Energy (SESE) research group. His current research focuses on understanding the coupled geomechanical and geochemical effects of CO₂ storage at the field scale. He integrates numerical modeling and machine learning techniques to advance this work. His research excellence has earned him awards including the Texas A&M Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowship and IADC scholarship.

Passionate about mitigating the environmental impact due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, he actively contributes to efforts in sustainable energy initiatives. He was selected as one of 32 emerging leaders from 14 universities in the 2025 OpenMinds NextGen program. Through the program, he collaborates with industry experts to tackle the Dual Challenge: more energy, less emissions, and faster.

An SPE member since 2016, Badejo has held several volunteer and leadership roles and led the Texas A&M SPE PetroBowl team to the 2025 PetroBowl International Competition.

He holds a master’s degree in subsurface energy systems (now sustainable geoenergy) from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where he received the 2023 SPE Aberdeen Section Bursary Award and led the university team to the 2023 PetroBowl regional qualifiers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum and gas engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. During this time, he served as the 2018–2019 SPE Programs Chairperson and co-initiated the inaugural edition of The Industry Discourse, a student-led energy conference.