George A. Cooper - Biography

George Cooper graduated in 1967 with a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. He spent 21 years in industrial research and research management with the UK National Physical Laboratory (UK), Union Carbide (Belgium), Atlas Copco (Switzerland), Castolin (Switzerland) and Schlumberger (UK and France). Since August 1988, he has been the head of the Petroleum Engineering Program at UC Berkeley, and Senior Petroleum Engineer at the DOE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.