Dr. Erhan Aslan is a Learning Simulator Specialist and Program Facilitator at IHRDC. Dr. Aslan began his career in Abu Dhabi as a reservoir engineer at Kelkar and Associates and was involved in multiple projects on reservoir development and characterization for fields in the Middle East and Russia. In 2006, he relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma for his M.S. in Upscaling of Tight Gas Reservoirs within the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering department at the University of Tulsa. He then attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating in August 2013 with a Ph.D. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. His thesis was entitled Development of an Advanced Coalbed Methane (CBM) Numerical Reservoir Simulator. During his studies at Penn State and the University of Tulsa, he taught classes on Drilling Fluids, Production Engineering, Well Testing and Evaluation, Numerical Reservoir Simulations, and Rock and Fluid Properties for graduate and undergraduate students. He received the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from Penn State in April 2013. His areas of interest include reservoir characterization, development of numerical reservoir simulators, unconventional gas reservoirs, parallel programming, and static and dynamic reservoir simulation modeling.