Nadia Mouedden

Nadia Mouedden is a PhD candidate in petroleum engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and a reservoir and production engineer by training. Her expertise spans both traditional oil and gas and emerging energy technologies such as CO₂ storage and geothermal.

Her research and industry internships have focused on reservoir and production engineering, well integrity, and hydraulic fracturing. She has contributed to projects on CO₂ storage injectivity improvements, enhanced geothermal system reservoir modeling, proppant transport optimization, cement bond quality evaluation, and well-stimulation candidate selection.

Beyond research, she is an active leader in the student community. She served as president of UT Austin’s Petroleum Graduate Student Association, previously led the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts student chapter, and has been actively engaged with SPE since 2017. During her time as a student chapter officer, both the SPE Boumerdès and University of North Dakota chapters earned the SPE Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter. She has also supported technical events, student outreach, competitions, and contributed as a reviewer for SPE Journal.

She has authored multiple technical papers and presented at major conferences, advancing energy solutions through both experimental and numerical approaches.