Dr. Xina Xie is currently employed as a scientist with Correlations Company. She is the Principal Investigator for a DOE funded SBIR project titled "Chemical Stimulation of oil wells producing from Carbonate Reservoirs". She also works as an advisory research scientist for the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory. She has previously worked as a research scientist with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming and as a research engineer for the China National Petroleum Corporation. Her interests include ehanced oil recovery by chemical stimulation, mechanisms of enhanced oil recovery by waterflooding and physical and chemical interaction between oil, water and rock surfaces.