Faculty Profile

Michael Hoepfner

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Computer Simulation
Deposition Processes
Heavy Petroleum
Neutron Scattering
Soft Matter
X-ray Scattering

Awards & Honors

  • 2018 Upstream Engineering and Flow Assurance Forum Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 10/28/2018
  • Top 15% of College of Engineering Instructors (CHEN 2800, Sp '18), University of Utah College of Engineering 06/01/2018
  • Janicek Fellowship Recipient, University of Michigan 09/2007
  • College of Engineering Outstanding Graduating Student Leader, University of Utah 05/2007
  • Presidential Scholarship, University of Utah 08/2004

Publications

  • Weiyi Kong, Rizwanur Rahman, Michael P Hoepfner. (2026). Suppression of Homogeneous Asphaltene Precipitation by Mineral-Induced Nucleation. Energy & Fuels, 40(6).
  • Thomas F Headen, Neal T Skipper, Michael P Hoepfner. (2026). Stacking structure in liquid polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Chemical Communications, 62(11).
  • Harry Winston Sullivan, Matej Cervenka, Brennon L Shanks, Michael P Hoepfner. (2025). Physics-Informed Gaussian Process Inference of Liquid Structure from Scattering Data. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 129(45).
  • B L Shanks, H W Sullivan, P Jungwirth, M P Hoepfner. (2025). Experimental evidence of quantum Drude oscillator behavior in liquids revealed with probabilistic iterative Boltzmann inversion. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162(16).
  • Brennon L Shanks, Harry W Sullivan, Michael P Hoepfner. (2024). Bayesian Analysis Reveals the Key to Extracting Pair Potentials from Neutron Scattering Data. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15(51).
  • Brennon L Shanks, Harry W Sullivan, Abdur R Shazed, Michael P Hoepfner. (2024). Accelerated Bayesian Inference for Molecular Simulations using Local Gaussian Process Surrogate Models. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 20(9).
  • Brennon L Shanks, Jeffrey J Potoff, Michael P Hoepfner. (2022). Transferable Force Fields from Experimental Scattering Data with Machine Learning Assisted Structure Refinement. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13(49).
  • Abu Sufian Mohammad Asib, Rizwanur Rahman, Pedro Romero, Michael P Hoepfner, Abdullahal Mamun. (2022). Physicochemical characterization of short and long-term aged asphalt mixtures for low-temperature performance. Construction and Building Materials, 319.
  • Siddharth Agrawal, Mahmoud Elmehlawy, Michael P Hoepfner. (2021). Effect of Confinement on the Density and Diffusivity of Organic Molecules in Single-Digit Nanopores Relative to Bulk Fluid Behavior. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(20).
  • Siddharth Agrawal, Ryan A Mysko, Michael M Nigra, Swomitra K Mohanty, Michael P Hoepfner. (2021). Plasmonic Photocatalytic Enhancement of L‑Cysteine Self-Assembled Gold Nanoparticle Clusters for Fenton Reaction Catalysis. Langmuir, 37(11).
  • Jiaoyan Li, Qi Rao, Yidong Xia, Michael Hoepfner, Milind D Deo. (2020). Confinement-Mediated Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Fluids: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations. Langmuir, 36(26).
  • Michael P Hoepfner, Milind Deo. (2019). 19th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling. Energy & Fuels, 33(5).
  • Manaf Ismail, Yuan Yang, Wattana Chaisoontornyotin, Cesar Ovalles, Estrella Rogel, Michael E Moir, Michael P Hoepfner. (2019). Effect of Chemical Inhibitors on Asphaltene Precipitation and Morphology Using Ultra-Small-Angle X‑ray Scattering. Energy & Fuels, 33(5).
  • Thomas F Headen, Michael P Hoepfner. (2019). Predicting Asphaltene Aggregate Structure from Molecular Dynamics Simulation: Comparison to Neutron Total Scattering Data. Energy & Fuels, 33(5).
  • Parviz Rahimi, Cesar Ovalles, Yunlong Zhang, Jeramie J Adams, Amy J Cairns, Katherine L Hull, Mohammed Sayed, Helen W Hernandez, Alyssa Perrard, Eleazar Mendoza Gonzalez, Wesley Ehlert, Siwar Trabelsi, Yunlong Zhang, Michael P Hoepfner, Yuan Yang, Michael E Moir, Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan, Arno de Klerk, Vinay Prasad, E Rogel, K Hench, P Hajdu, H Ingham, Parviz Rahimi, Michela Martinelli, Mohammad Mehrbod, Uschi M Graham, Yongfeng Hu, Muthu K Gnanamani, Gary Jacobs, Cesar Ovalles, Estrella Rogel, Matthew Hurt, Viorel Duma, Harris Morazan, Kyle Hench, Michael E Moir, Moumita Dutta, Annie Pathiparampil, Deanna Quon, Jimmy Tan, Laura Poirier, Lidia Berhane, Francisco Lopez-Linares, Ken G Huang, Yaya A Zhu, Fei Ren, Yuxia Zhu, Qianqian Liu, Haoming Wu. (2019). Preface. ACS Symposium Series, 1320.
  • Michael P Hoepfner, Yuan Yang. (2019). Ultra-Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering as a Probe of Petroleum Heterogeneities from the Nano- to the Macroscale. ACS Symposium Series, 1320.
  • Yuan Yang, Wattana Chaisoontornyotin, Michael P Hoepfner. (2018). Structure of Asphaltenes during Precipitation Investigated by Ultra-Small-Angle X‑ray Scattering. Langmuir, 34(35).
  • Wattana Chaisoontornyotin, Jingzhou Zhang, Samson Ng, Michael P Hoepfner. (2018). Rapid Heterogeneous Asphaltene Precipitation with Dispersed Solids. Energy & Fuels, 32(7).
  • Gina Javanbakht, Mohammad Sedghi, William R W Welch, Lamia Goual, Michael P Hoepfner. (2018). Molecular polydispersity improves prediction of asphaltene aggregation. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 256.
  • Cláudio Vilas Bôas Fávero, Tabish Maqbool, Michael Hoepfner, Nasim Haji-Akbari, H Scott Fogler. (2017). Revisiting the flocculation kinetics of destabilized asphaltenes. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 244.
  • Wattana Chaisoontornyotin, Nasim Haji-Akbari, H Scott Fogler, Michael P Hoepfner. (2016). Combined Asphaltene Aggregation and Deposition Investigation. Energy & Fuels, 30(3).
  • Yaseen Elkasabi, Aftin M Ross, Jonathan Oh, Michael P Hoepfner, H Scott Fogler, Joerg Lahann, Paul H Krebsbach. (2014). Design Strategies for Reduced‐scale Surface Composition Gradients via CVD Copolymerization. Chemical Vapor Deposition, 20(1-2-3).
  • Michael P Hoepfner, H Scott Fogler. (2013). Multiscale Scattering Investigations of Asphaltene Cluster Breakup, Nanoaggregate Dissociation, and Molecular Ordering. Langmuir, 29(49).
  • Michael P Hoepfner, Cláudio Vilas Bôas Fávero, Nasim Haji-Akbari, H Scott Fogler. (2013). The Fractal Aggregation of Asphaltenes. Langmuir, 29(28).
  • Nasim Haji-Akbari, Pennapa Masirisuk, Michael P Hoepfner, H Scott Fogler. (2013). A Unified Model for Aggregation of Asphaltenes. Energy & Fuels, 27(5).
  • Michael P Hoepfner, Vipawee Limsakoune, Varun Chuenmeechao, Tabish Maqbool, H Scott Fogler. (2013). A Fundamental Study of Asphaltene Deposition. Energy & Fuels, 27(2).
  • Tabish Maqbool, Sasanka Raha, Michael P Hoepfner, H Scott Fogler. (2011). Modeling the Aggregation of Asphaltene Nanoaggregates in Crude Oil−Precipitant Systems. Energy & Fuels, 25(4).
  • Michael P Hoepfner, D Keith Roper. (2009). Describing temperature increases in plasmon-resonant nanoparticle systems. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 98(1).
  • D Keith Roper, W Ahn, M Hoepfner. (2007). Microscale Heat Transfer Transduced by Surface Plasmon Resonant Gold Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(9).