Kristine Spildo

Kristine Spildo´s main research interests are intermolecular interactions at static and dynamic liquid-liquid and solid-liquid interfaces, including the interplay between chemical interactions and hydrodynamic flows. Her research combines experimental work, mathematical modelling and numerical simulations with relevance to a range of scientific areas including the behaviour of liquids inside carbon nanotubes, transport of colloids in porous media, and biomedical applications.

Before joining UiB as Associate Professor in 2013, Spildo was Principal Researcher at Uni CIPR (now a part of Norce Energy, 2003-2013), senior reservoir Engineer at Norsk Hydro Research Center in Bergen (2001-2003), and  postdoctoral research fellow funded by Research Council of Norway (RCN). As a Phd Student she had two extended (> 6 months) research stays abroad, one at the New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center, Socorro, USA and one at the School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

In the period 2003-2013 Spildo contributed to the establishment and coordination of one of Norway´s first Center of Excellence (CoE), the Center for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), as one of three research leaders. During her ten years as research leader for the enhanced oil recovery group at CIPR she was active in developing and starting up a wide range of projects with both national and international participants from oil companies, chemical companies, universities and research institutions. She has been project leader (PL) and principal investigator (PI) in several projects funded by RCN, including Nanotechnology EOR - LPS flood for North Sea reservoirs (PL), EOR Methods – Moving Science into Applications (PI) and EOR for Maximising Tail Production, (PI).