Professor, Imperial College London, 1999-date
Head of Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, 2006-2011
Head of Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Group, 1999-2006
Assistant then Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, California, 1992-1999
Research Reservoir Engineer with BP in Sunbury-on-Thames, 1988-1992
MA and PhD degrees in theoretical physics from Cambridge University, 1988

Recent Measures of Esteem

2025 President's International Fellowship Initiative Distinguished Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2025 Elected an International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering 
2024 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
2021 Head Major Awards Committee, Society of Petroleum Engineers
2019 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2019 Celsius Lecturer, University of Uppsala
2018 Honorary Lifetime Membership, InterPore
2017 Erasmus Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
2016 President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching
2012 Darcy Award, Society of Core Analysts
2011 Winner of the Lester U Uren Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers
2011- Editor-in-Chief, Transport in Porous Media
2011- Director, iRock Technologies, China
2007 Keynote speaker Forum on Reservoir Simulation, Abu Dhabi
2006 Chair, Gordon Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, New Hampshire
2006 Keynote speaker Computational Methods in Water Resources Conference, Copenhagen
2001-2 SPE Distinguished Lecturer
2001- Director, Streamsim Technologies inc, California

Research Interests
Professor Blunt's research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with many applications including geological carbon and hydrogen storage, and contaminant transport, clean-up in polluted aquifers and fibrous porous materials. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale imaging, modelling and analysis of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transport in Porous Media. He has over 300 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.