GEG Group Members

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Chair

Prof. Dr. Martin O. Saar
saarm@ethz.ch
Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Research

NO F 51.2

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich

+41 44 632 3465

Admin, IT & Technical Staff

Dominique Ballarin Dolfin
(admin, IT)
started 01.01.2015
ballarin@ethz.ch
+41 44 632 3465

NO F 53

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich

Nils Knornschild (Polytechniker)
started 01.12.2015
knnils@ethz.ch
+41 44 633 8951

NW B 86

Clausiusstrasse 25

CH-8092 Zurich

Senior Researchers

Dr. Maren Brehme
started 01.08.2021
mbrehme@ethz.ch

NO F 57

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 2521

Dr. Xiang-Zhao Kong
started 01.01.2015
xkong@ethz.ch
Flow and transport in subsurface

NO F 57

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 5586

Dr. Allan Leal
started 01.09.2015
allan.leal@erdw.ethz.ch
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation – Ambizione

NO F 57

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 44 633 2521

Dr. Friedemann Samrock
started 01.03.2015
fsamrock@ethz.ch
Geothermal Exploration, Magnetotellurics

NO F 61

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 8903

Postdocs

Dr. Mahmoud Hefny
started 01.09.2018
mhefny@ethz.ch

NO E 17

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich

Dr. Svetlana Kyas
started 01.12.2018
matcules@ethz.ch
Reaktoro as the Chemical Reaction Solver in Shell’s Reservoir Simulator

NO F 61

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 2751

Dr. Pierre Léard
started 01.12.2020
pleard@ethz.ch

NO F 45

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 8059

Dr. Jan Niederau
started 01.01.2019
nijan@ethz.ch
Geothermal Pilot Study Aargau

NO F 61

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 4710

Dr. Edoardo Rossi
started 10.10.2016
rossie@ethz.ch
Enhance deep geothermal energy exploitation

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2910

Master/Bachelor Students

Adam Malek
started September 2020
ETH Master Student
Power and Cost of Closed-loop Advanced Geothermal Systems (AGS)

Selina Metzger
started September 2020
ETH Master Student (Ingenieurgeologie)

Madeleine Müller
started MSc 2019
ETH Master Student

Qinghua Wang
started 2021
IDEA League Master Student

Ricardo Zamora
started MSc 2019
ETH Master Student

Doctoral Students

Luise Dambly
started 01.03.2020
mdambly@ethz.ch

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2558

Batmagnai Erdenechimeg
started 01.12.2018
erdenecb@ethz.ch
Geothermal exploration and energy utilization in Mongolia. (SNF R4D)

NO F 61

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 2751

Kevin P. Hau
started 01.04.2021
hauk@ethz.ch

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2558

Powei Huang
started 01.08.2018
pohuang@ethz.ch
Precipitation/dissolution, reactive transport, scaling effects

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2558

Hoda Javanmard
started 01.02.2018
jhoda@ethz.ch

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 4041

Anna Kottsova
started 01.05.2021 TU Delft (main affil.)
starting 01.01.2022 GEG ETH Zurich (planned)
EASYGO PhD student

Serhat Küçük
started 01.08.2021
s.kucuk@erdw.ethz.ch

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 4041

Tristan Merbecks
started 01.05.2021 Politecnico Milano (main affil.)
starting 01.11.2021 GEG ETH Zurich
EASYGO PhD student

Mohamed Ezzat Mostafa
started 01.10.2018
m.ezzat@erdw.ethz.ch
Development of a new contact-less drilling method, Plasma-Pulse Geo Drilling (PPGD)

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2558

Isamu Naets
started 01.09.2018
inaets@ethz.ch
Fluid and solute transport in fractures and PIV-LIF

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2558

Nicolas Rangel Jurado
started 01.07.2021 GEG ETH Zurich (main affil.)
nrangel@ethz.ch
EASYGO PhD student

NO F 51.1

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 632 2558

Ryan Santoso
started 01.04.2021 RWTH Aachen (main affil.)
starting 01.01.2023 GEG ETH Zurich (planned)
EASYGO PhD student

Lily Suherlina
starting 01.01.2022
ETH PhD student

Master/Bachelor Students

Adam Malek
started September 2020
ETH Master Student
Power and Cost of Closed-loop Advanced Geothermal Systems (AGS)

Selina Metzger
started September 2020
ETH Master Student (Ingenieurgeologie)

Madeleine Müller
started MSc 2019
ETH Master Student

Qinghua Wang
started 2021
IDEA League Master Student

Ricardo Zamora
started MSc 2019
ETH Master Student

People affiliated with the GEG Group

Dr. Keith Evans
Former senior scientist
02.03.2015 – 31.05.2017
kevans@ethz.ch
Scaling of stress variations in deep crystalline rock

Anozie Ebigbo
Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.08.2016 – 31.05.2020

Dr. Daniel Vogler
Spallation Drilling,
Hydraulic Fracturing

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.09.2016 – 30.06.2021

Dr. Xiaodong Ma>br>Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.01.2018 – 30.09.2019

Dr. Benjamin Adams
Former PostDoc
1.1.2018 – 31.12.2020
carbon-sequestration,
geothermal energy production

Dr. Daniel Birdsall
Former PostDoc
16.11.2018 – 31.05.2021

Dr. Jonathan Ogland-Hand
Former PostDoc
17.06.2019 – 31.03.2021

Dr. Philipp Schädle
Former PostDoc
1.2.2016 – 30.11.2020
Reactive transport; fractured porous media, reservoir modeling

Former GEG Members and former Visitors (includes affiliated)

Ordered chronologically

Dr. Shihuai Zhang
Former PostDoc
23.04.2019 – 31.08.2021

Dr. Daniel Vogler
Spallation Drilling,
Hydraulic Fracturing

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.09.2016 – 30.06.2021

Dr. Daniel Birdsall
Former PostDoc
16.11.2018 – 31.05.2021

Dr. Jonathan Ogland-Hand
Former PostDoc
17.06.2019 – 31.03.2021

Xintong Wang
Former Academic Guest
1.11.2019 – 31.03.2021

Diya Sunil Kumbhat
Former MSc Student
Semester project since 2019
ETH Master Student
2019 – 2021

Anna Van Brummen
Former MSc Student
September 2018 – 2020
Link to Master Thesis

Dr. Benjamin Adams
Former PostDoc
1.1.2018 – 31.12.2020
carbon-sequestration,
geothermal energy production

Dr. Philipp Schädle
Former PostDoc
1.2.2016 – 30.11.2020
Reactive transport; fractured porous media, reservoir modeling

Dr. Mehrdad Ahkami
Former PhD student
1.11.2016 – 31.10.2020
Fluid flow in porous media

Dr. Justin Ezekiel
Former PhD Student
01.09.2016 – 31.10.2020
CCUS and combined EGR-CPG systems

Dr. Marina Lima
Former PhD Student
01.10.2017 – 30.09.2020
Reactive transport in fracture-dominated porous media

Dr. Jin Ma
Former PhD Student
01.06.2016 – 30.06.2020

Anozie Ebigbo
Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.08.2016 – 31.05.2020

Katharina Kuhn
Former ETH Bachelor Student 2020

Prof. Dr. Shemin Ge
Former visiting professor
15.08.2019-31.12.2019

Selene Cremonesi

Former ETH Master Student
May 2019 – December 2019
Link to Master Thesis

Marat Ravilov
Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE
March 2019 – 30.11.2019
two-component 5-spot MOOSE reservoir modeling for CPG

Link to Master Thesis

Dr. Xiaodong Ma
Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.01.2018 – 30.09.2019

Anniina Kittilä
Former PhD Student
1.5.2015-31.08.2019
Groundwater flow in fracture-dominated media

Xiaoqing Chen
Former assistant – postgraduate
15.10.2018 – 31.08.2019
Master of Science (MSc)
FSI simulations to compute hydro-mechanically coupled processes in rough fractures

Joan Delort
Former assistant – postgraduate
01.09.2018 – 31.08.2019
Master of Science (MSc)

Zhiqiang LI
Former Academic Guest
01.09.2018 – 31.08.2019

Shiyi Li
Former assistant – postgraduate
01.09.2018 – 30.04.2019

Kai Broeker
Master student – IDEA LEAGUE
March 2019

Anwar Al Assadi
Former assistant – postgraduate
01.10.2018 – 30.11.2018

Maria Cardenas Rivera
Former assistant – postgraduate
01.11.2018 – 30.11.2018

Guodong Cui
Former Academic Guest
01.11.2017 – 09.11.2018
Ph.D. Student

Ali Aminzadeh
Former Academic Guest
01.11.2017 – 31.05.2018

Alex Hobé
Former Assistant – postgraduate
01.10.2017 – 31.01.2018
Multiphysics modeling of geothermal reservoirs

Niko Laaksonlaita
Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Dandan Li
Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Manos Pefkos
Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE
MSc IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018

Marthe Faber
Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Susymar Rodriguez
Former assistant – postgraduate
01.10.2017 – 31.12.2017
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey M. Bielicki
Former visiting professor
15.06.2017 – 15.10.2017
bielicki.2@osu.edu
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Energy and environmental systems
renewable energy

Faraz Habib
Former assistant – postgraduate
15.03.2017 – 31.08.2017

Raphael Allstadt
Former assistant – postgraduate
15.09.2016 – 30.06.2017
Master of Science (MSc)
Numerical modelling of two-phase flow in porous media

Dr. Keith Evans
Former senior scientist
02.03.2015 – 31.05.2017
kevans@ethz.ch
Scaling of stress variations in deep crystalline rock

Dr. Nagasree Garapati
Former PostDoc
01.11.2015 – 30.04.2017
ngarapat@mail.wvu.edu

Neeraj Shah
Former assistant – postgraduate
15.09.2016 – 31.03.2017
Master of Science (MSc)

Claudia Deuber
Former assistant – postgraduate
15.09.2016 – 30.11.2016
Master of Science (MSc)

People affiliated with the GEG Group

Dr. Keith Evans
kevans@ethz.ch
Scaling of stress variations in deep crystalline rock

Former senior scientist
02.03.2015 – 31.05.2017

Dr. Anozie Ebigbo
Subsurface multiphase flow and transport

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.08.2016 – 31.05.2020

Dr. Daniel Vogler
Spallation Drilling,
Hydraulic Fracturing

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.09.2016 – 30.06.2021

Dr. Xiaodong Ma

NO F 27

Sonneggstrasse 5

CH-8092 Zurich
+41 44 633 8175

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.01.2018 – 30.09.2019
Senior Research Assistant with the SCCER-SoE, associated with the GEG Group

Dr. Benjamin Adams
carbon-sequestration,
geothermal energy production

Former PostDoc
1.1.2018 – 31.12.2020

Dr. Daniel Birdsell

Former PostDoc
16.11.2018 – 31.05.2021

Dr. Jonathan Ogland-Hand

Former PostDoc
17.06.2019 – 31.03.2021

Dr. Philipp Schädle
Reactive transport; fractured porous media, reservoir modeling

Former PostDoc
1.2.2016 – 31.11.2020

Former GEG Members and former Visitors (includes affiliated)

Ordered chronologically

Dr. Shihuai Zhang

Former PostDoc
23.04.2019 – 31.08.2021

Dr. Daniel Vogler
Spallation Drilling,
Hydraulic Fracturing

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.09.2016 – 30.06.2021

Dr. Daniel Birdsell

Former PostDoc
16.11.2018 – 31.05.2021

Dr. Jonathan Ogland-Hand

Former PostDoc
17.06.2019 – 31.03.2021

Xintong Wang

Former Academic Guest
01.11.2019 – 31.03.2021

Diya Sunil Kumbhat

Former MSc Student
2019 – 2021

Anna Van Brummen
Link to Master Thesis

Former MSc Student
September 2018 – 2020

Dr. Benjamin Adams
carbon-sequestration,
geothermal energy production

Former PostDoc
1.1.2018 – 31.12.2020

Dr. Philipp Schädle
Reactive transport; fractured porous media, reservoir modeling

Former PostDoc
1.2.2016 – 31.11.2020

Dr. Mehrdad Ahkami
Fluid flow in porous media

Former PhD student
1.11.2016 – 31.10.2020

Dr. Justin Ezekiel
CCUS and combined EGR-CPG systems

Former PhD Student
01.09.2016 – 31.10.2020

Dr. Marina Lima
Reactive transport in fracture-dominated porous media

Former PhD Student
01.10.2017 – 30.09.2020

Dr. Jin Ma
Reactive transport in natural porous media

Former PhD Student
01.06.2016 – 30.06.2020

Dr. Anozie Ebigbo
Subsurface multiphase flow and transport

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.08.2016 – 31.05.2020

Katharina Kuhn

Former ETH Bachelor Student 2020

Prof. Dr. Shemin Ge
Professor
University of Colorado Boulder

Former visiting professor
15.08.2019 – 31.12.2019

Selene Cremonesi
Link to Master Thesis

Former ETH Master Student
May 2019 – December 2019

Marat Ravilov
two-component 5-spot MOOSE reservoir modeling for CPG

Link to Master Thesis

Former Assistant – Postgraduate
March 2019 – 30.11.2019

Dr. Xiaodong Ma

Former Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
01.01.2018 – 30.09.2019

Dr. Anniina Kittilä
Groundwater flow in fracture-dominated media

Former PhD Student
01.05.2015 – 31.08.2019

Xiaoqing Chen
Master of Science (MSc)
FSI simulations to compute hydro-mechanically coupled processes in rough fractures

Former assistant – postgraduate
15.10.2018 – 31.08.2019

Joan Delort
Master of Science (MSc)

Former assistant – postgraduate
01.09.2018 – 31.08.2019

Zhiqiang LI

Former Academic Guest
01.09.2018 – 31.08.2019

Shiyi Li
Master of Science (MSc)

Former assistant – postgraduate
01.09.2018 – 30.04.2019

Kai Broeker

Former MSc Student IDEA LEAGUE
March 2019

Anwar Al Assadi

Former assistant – postgraduate
01.10.2018 – 30.11.2018

Maria Cardenas Rivera

Former assistant – postgraduate
01.11.2018 – 30.11.2018

Guodong Cui
Ph.D. Student

Former Academic Guest
01.11.2017 – 09.11.2018

Ali Aminzadeh
Master of Science (MSc)

Former Academic Guest
01.11.2017 – 31.05.2018

Alex Hobé
Multiphysics modeling of geothermal reservoirs

Former assistant – postgraduate
01.10.2017 – 31.01.2018

Niko Laaksonlaita
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018

Dandan Li
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018

Manos Pefkos
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018

Marthe Faber
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Former MSc student IDEA LEAGUE 2017/2018

Susymar Rodriguez
MSc IDEA LEAGUE

Former assistant – postgraduate
01.10.2017 – 31.12.2017

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey M. Bielicki
bielicki.2@osu.edu
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Energy and environmental systems
renewable energy

Former visiting professor
15.06.2017 – 15.10.2017

Faraz Habib

Former assistant – postgraduate
15.03.2017 – 31.08.2017

Raphael Allstadt
Master of Science (MSc)
Numerical modelling of two-phase flow in porous media

Former assistant – postgraduate
15.09.2016 – 30.06.2017

Dr. Keith Evans
kevans@ethz.ch
Scaling of stress variations in deep crystalline rock

Former senior scientist
02.03.2015 – 31.05.2017

Dr. Nagasree Garapati
ngarapat@mail.wvu.edu
Research Assistant Professor
West Virginia University

Former PostDoc
01.11.2015 – 30.04.2017

Neeraj Shah
Master of Science (MSc)

Former assistant – postgraduate
15.09.2016 – 31.03.2017

Claudia Deuber
Master of Science (MSc)

Former assistant – postgraduate
15.09.2016 – 30.11.2016