Patrick Young, PhD
Yale-trained geologist. Founder of Andvari Resources.
Earth Science
BS and MS in Earth Science from Rice University. Before completing his doctorate, worked as a geoscience contractor at ExxonMobil, building quantitative models for reservoir quality prediction and regional exploration dataset analysis. PhD in Geology & Geophysics from Yale (2016), with doctoral research on mantle geochemistry and the processes that partition and concentrate metals in the crust.
His work bridges academic petrology and applied resource evaluation, with an emphasis on probabilistic methods and decision support under uncertainty.
Why Andvari
Rice geoscientist. ExxonMobil contractor. Yale PhD. Each step compounds the last. Mineral exploration is data-rich and insight-poor, and Andvari is built to close that gap.