Professor Ruben Juanes is the principal investigator and director of the newly established Center of Excellence in Multiscale Reservoir Science, a partnership between MIT and the College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (CPG) at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia. The collaboration, initially funded by KFUPM with $2.5 million over three years, will focus on the development of technologies for improved characterization of the subsurface via combined active/passive seismic imaging, simulation of coupled flow and geomechanics, and pore-scale modeling of multiphase flow. The MIT team also involves AeroAstro Professor Youssef Marzouk, EAPS Professor Nafi Toksoz and EAPS Senior Research Scientist Dr. Michael Fehler.