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Bhavna Arora

Earth Staff Scientist

Geochemistry Dept

BIO

Bhavna Arora is a Staff Scientist and the Carbon Removal and Mineralization Program Head in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Water Management and Hydrological Science program at Texas A&M University in 2012. Dr. Arora also holds a minor in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her research primarily involves reactive transport modeling to provide a comprehensive and predictive understanding of biogeochemical processes in various types of subsurface environments and at different space-time scales. She specializes in utilizing a combination of numerical models, uncertainty analysis and data mining techniques to test new concepts and hypotheses and in applying these tools to provide a scientific basis for solving diverse issues in the earth and environmental sciences such as water resources management, negative net emissions, environmental remediation, and nutrient cycling.

LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LAB APPOINTMENTS

  • Earth Staff Scientist
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Energy Geosciences, Berkeley, CA, USA1 Jun 2012 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Staff Scientist
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States2023 - present
  • Career Research Scientist
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States2020 - 2023
  • Career-track Research Scientist
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States2017 - 2020
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States2012 - 2017
  • Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant
    Texas A&M University, College Station, United States2006 - 2012

DEGREES

  • Ph.D.
    Texas A&M University, College Station, United States2012
  • M.Tech
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India2006
  • B.Tech (Hon)
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India2006

AREA

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences

DIVISION

  • Energy Geosciences

RESEARCH AREAS