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Anna Kottsova

Anna Kottsova

Hydrogeochemical processes affecting efficiency during operation

Young specialist in Petroleum Engineering with profound knowledge of physical-chemical processes in the reservoirs. Have diverse skills due to wide educational background and variety of internships. Keen learner and aspiring scientist.

Host Institutions: TU Delft, ETH Zurich, Hydreco Geomec

Wen Luo

Wen Luo

Study of Near-borehole thermo-hydro-mechanical processes

Wen Luo has a Master majoring in Oil-Gas Well Engineering at the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering at the Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU), Chengdu, China.

Host Institutions: TU Delft, RWTH Aachen, Hydreco Geomec

David Naranjo

David Naranjo

Long-term seismic monitoring of Dutch geothermal-well activities with surface seismometers

Highly motivated MSc. of Applied Geophysics with professional interest directed towards exploration and project development in the energy sector. Advanced knowledge of mathematics, physics and geosciences.

Host Institutions: TU Delft, RWTH Aachen, EBN

Mahmoud Eltayieb

Mahmoud Eltayieb

Joint seismic and electromagnetic monitoring system design

Finished his master’s degree on ’Integral Equation Methods for Controlled-Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) Modeling, Inversion and Time-Lapse Studies’. Working as a teaching assistant in signal processing and inversion and had field training on mud logging tasks. Team-player and good communicator.

Lorenzo Galieti

Lorenzo Galieti

Mixtures as working fluids for geothermal ORC power plants

Mechanical engineer focused on fluid dynamics and turbomachinery, together with combustion, heat transfer and mixture flows. Moved around Europe to study, first at ETH Zurich, now at the Von Karman Institute, and also to work at GE Aviation.

Hagen Söding

Hagen Söding

Novel geophysical monitoring options of CO2 injections

Studied applied mathematics and worked as research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence “Data-Integrated Simulation Science”. After one year of working in the field of “mathematical systems theory”, now decided to work in a more applied field of research.

Nicolás Rangel Jurado

Nicolás Rangel Jurado

Option of using CO2 instead of water as the subsurface energy extraction fluid in EGS and in sedimentary basins

Colombian earth scientist with BSc and MSc degrees in Geological Sciences. Highly proficient in field practices, hydrogeology, numerical modeling, fluid dynamics, and thermal geophysics particularly oriented towards geothermal exploration and deployment. His academic and work experiences in renewable energy are applicable and transferable to a broad range of projects in the energy-mining sector worldwide.

Selvican Türkdoğan

Selvican Türkdoğan

Heterogeneities in hydraulic-mechanical coupled reservoir properties

Enthusiastic, skilled, and reliable geophysics engineer; pursuing for a challenging project based Ph.D. education that reflects my resourceful experience, skills, and personal attributes besides dedication, meeting goals, creativity, and the ability to follow through.

Josselin Ouf

Josselin Ouf

Large scale cooling induced stress changes around deep geothermal reservoirs

Graduated engineer with a Master in geotechnical engineering. Especially interested in Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical modelling and numerical investigation. Experienced in organizing teamwork as part of a science project and involved in international frameworks.

Ryan Santoso

Ryan Santoso

Physics-based machine learning for real-time simulation update

Interested in the uncertainty quantification and optimization under uncertainty for solving complex physical problems, for instance fluid flow in porous media and full-wave form inversion. I am also interested in the use of machine learning as a choice of low-fidelity model to reduce computational cost and deal with big data.

Andrea E. Balza Morales

Andrea E. Balza Morales

Geometry-based joint geological-geophysical inversion

Results-driven geoscientist with extensive knowledge in geophysical data analysis, survey planning, data processing and geophysical inversion. Communicative, personable, and team player. Interested in gaining experience in developing and applying new technologies that explore and monitor Earth’s natural resources. Fluent in several coding languages.

Esteban Gómez Diaz

Esteban Gómez Diaz

Geothermal reservoir characterization of deep limestones in the Rhine-Ruhr region

Research interests are in geochemistry, fluid-rock interaction, groundwater flow, hydrothermal transport and depositional processes, supercritical fluids, geothermal modelling, and geothermal exploration. Experience in planning and supervision of research campaigns, sampling and field analysis, numerical modeling and simulations.

Tristan Merbecks

Tristan Merbecks

Design and operation of a binary ORC plant for the exploitation of different geothermal sources, including two-phase sources

Main engineering passions and convictions centre around the provision of affordable, environmentally friendly and socially conscious energy. Strong technical background, aptitude for problem solving, ability to communicate these concepts in multicultural environments and passion for both sustainable energy sources and the modelling of physical systems.

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