Iulia Olariu, Ph.D.
Iulia is currently a research associate with the Bureau of Economic Geology. Her area of expertise is clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy with a special interest in the quantitative depositional architecture of both shallow and deep-water sedimentary systems. Iulia’s main interest is understanding sediment dispersion at large, basin-scale using subsurface (wells, seismic and core) data. Currently she’s working on the Paleogene Wilcox Group along the Texas Gulf Coast trying to identify sediment fairways and to link the depositional systems from shelf through slope to basin floor in a highly complex structural context. She has also been involved in various feasibility projects for CO2 storage resource assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Iulia has a BS degree from University of Bucharest, Romania and a PhD degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.