Patricia E. Rodrigues received a Ph.D. in geophysics from Colorado School of Mines and a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from Universidad Simón Bolivar (Venezuela). She has more than 20 years of experience in research and application of reservoir characterization technologies, specializing in petrophysics and rock physics for the oil and gas industry. She worked 8 years for PDVSA-Intevep and two years for Tricon Geophysics on seismic petrophysics and integrating well data through rock physics methodologies. In 2006, she joined DRM Energy Corp., a startup oil and gas company, while she also worked for iReservoir as a senior petrophysicist. While at iReservoir, she tested and used iMineralysis™ extensively and suggested numerous improvements. After iReservoir, she went back to school to complete her Ph.D. while working part-time for Newfield Exploration Company. In 2014, she joined Whiting Petroleum as Petrophysical Manager and more recently Director of Geology and Geophysics. She is an expert on multimineral analysis and instructor of the class Petrophysical Multimineral Analysis.