[March 8] 5 questions to Irina Panfilov, researcher specializing in multiphase fluid flow in porous media

To mark International Women’s Rights Day on March 8, here’s a closer look at Irina Panfilov, a researcher in LEMTA’s MRI for Engineering team, and a lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG).
Can you tell us more about your career path?

For a female researcher in France, my background is atypical. First of all, I’m of Russian origin and began my studies and work in Moscow. There, I graduated from Gubkin Oil and Gas University, then continued my studies for another year at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics at Lomonossov University. Then I got a job at the Institute of Oil and Gas Problems attached to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 2000, I moved to France with my family and had the opportunity to complete my doctoral thesis and start teaching at ENSG. In 2011, I obtained my habilitation to direct research (HDR) on the theme of multiphase flows at microscopic and macroscopic scales in porous media.

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