Wolfgang Bauer received his PhD from the University of Wuerzburg. He is active in geothermal exploration for more than 20 years, leading expert teams for the development of several geothermal projects in Europe. His current research focusses on the development of new geothermal plays in southern Germany and South America.

Joachim Strobel received a Diploma in Geology from the University of Munich and from the University of Swansea.
He worked for Schlumberger as field-engineer and petrophysicist from 1987 to 1999. He then joined the German operator RWE-DEA and managed the Formation Evaluation group there. In 2012 he joined Wintershall to head a mixed group of Reservoir Engineers and Petrophysicists to advance geomodelling processes. In 2015 he became the company’s lead petrophysicist.
While Joachim enjoys all facets of petrophysics, he is specialized in harmonizing saturation models across disciplines and explaining uncommon log responses through numerical simulations.

1984 – 1990: University of Cologne and Technical University Clausthal
Geophysics, Focus: Seismic and Geodynamics
Master thesis: Numeric modelling of forced fluid flow
1990-1997: Technical University of Clausthal
Research Projects: Deep continental seismic reflection surveys, near surface surveying with surface waves
Ph.D. Thesis: Application of Love-Waves in heterogeneous media
1997- 1999: Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Hannover
Research project: Seismic interpretation and basin development
1999-2005: Technical University Clausthal
Scientific Assistant, Lectures: Seismic, Well Logging and Risk Analysis
Focus: Application of the wavelet transformation in seismic interpretation
2005-2007: Teacher, Consultant
2007-now: Leibniz-Institute of Applied Geophysics, Hannover
Research projects for Geothermal Exploration:
Focus: Data Processing, Seismic Structural Interpretation, Seismic Facies, Seismic Attributes, Sequence Stratigraphy, Carbonates, 3D-Visulization