Dr. Shuvajit Bhattacharya is a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. He has expertise in petrophysics, quantitative seismic, and machine learning applications. He is primarily interested in developing new concepts and workflows in petrophysical analysis for subsurface characterization and monitoring. Prior to joining BEG, he worked at the University of Alaska and Battelle. He has completed petrophysical analysis for many CCS projects in the Gulf Coast, Midwest, Northeast, and Alaska. Apart from CCS projects, he is actively involved in many oil and gas, geothermal, and hydrogen storage projects. He received the SEG's J. Clarence Karcher Award in 2022 and the AAPG Gulf Coast Section's A.I. Levorsen Award in 2023 for outstanding scientific contributions. He completed a Ph.D. in Geology from West Virginia University in 2016 and an M.Sc. in Applied Geophysics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in 2010.