Dr. Philippe Ungerer

Before joining Materials Design® in 2010, Philippe spent most of his career at IFP (now called IFP New Energy), a public organization in France aimed at applied research and development in the field of oil and gas exploration, hydrocarbon processing and oil's use in engines.

He has been active in several fields of simulation: development of multidimensional models of oil and gas generation in sedimentary basins, thermodynamics of complex fluid mixtures, and molecular modeling of fluid properties since 1997. In these fields, he has been constantly involved in applications with industrial partners in the energy sector. Since 1998, he has also been regularly collaborating with the Laboratory of Chemical Physics in Orsay (University Paris 11), where he spent several years as a research fellow and associate professor. Philippe was again full time at IFP New Energy from 2005 to 2010, where he served as Scientific Director from 2006 to 2010, in charge of exploratory research among other duties.

Several awards have been attributed to Philippe and his coauthors. The most significant for him is the 2004 Award of the AIChE for the 2nd Fluid Simulation challenge. This prize allowed him to illustrate the use of the Gibbs software and the AUA forcefield, a method that was developed in a joint effort with several academic laboratories, and is now available in MedeA®.

Philippe is author or co-author of more than 80 scientific articles in major journals or congress proceedings. He is also the leading author of a textbook "Applications of molecular modeling in the oil and gas industry - Monte Carlo methods" (Technip editions, 2005) coauthored with Anne Boutin (CNRS) and Bernard Tavitian.

Philippe graduated from the School of Mines in Paris (1978). He holds a Masters in Applied Sciences of the University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada). He also obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry under the guidance of Professor Alain Fuchs in Orsay (1999).