Dirk John Orlowsky graduated from the Ruhr-University of Bochum in 1991, with a MSc. in Applied Geophysics, where he worked on the application of seismic techniques in underground coal mines. His according PhD, deals with the interpretation of seismic techniques in combination with a multitude of geophysical methods describing the “near surface underground” in detail. In 1991 Dirk joined the DMT GmbH & Co. KG (DMT-Group) in Germany. Initially, Dirk’s main focus is concentrated on research works, especially for Mining Exploration and Environmental Geophysics. Dirk manages national and international service projects for the application of high-resolution geophysical techniques in the fields civil engineering & infrastructure, exploration of raw materials as well as the prospection of new repository sites. He was chairing the international geo-scientific societies “EEGS-ES” as well as the Near Surface Geoscience Division of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE). He is active member of the German Geophysical Society (DGG), the Union of German Geo-Scientists (BDG), the German Society for Nondestructive Testing (DGZfP) as well as of the German Norming Committee (DIN 4020). Since 2019 Dirk is member of the EAGE board as Vice-President-Elect.

Giovanni Sosio is a technical team leader and project manager with Schlumberger in Paris. Born in Como, Italy, he graduated in Environmental engineering (Polytechnical Institute of Milan, 2003) and Applied geophysics (University of Milan, 2005) with projects on near-surface geophysics (GPR). He then joined Schlumberger as a wireline field engineer in the North Sea. He has held a variety of positions since then, most notably as subsurface project manager for a CO2 storage site demonstration project in Spain, as business development manager for geomechanical software in Continental Europe, and as a consulting project manager for geomechanical studies across Europe. He also coordinates Schlumberger’s geothermal consulting and software activities across Europe and has authored a dozen talks or papers on the subject. A member of the EAGE since 2007, he sits in the committee of the Decarbonization and Energy Transition community. He is also a member of the SPE and SPWLA. He is based in Paris since 2009.

Michael Peter Suess graduated in 1992 from the University of Bonn in Geology. Peter continued his studies to receive a PhD degree from the same university in 1996, working on quantitative stratigraphic modeling and geostatistic methods. In 1999 Peter joined Harvard University where he worked for 2 years on crustal seismic velocity modeling in Southern California. In 1999 he assumed a position as assistant at the department of geoscience in Tübingen, where he is now Adjunct Professor. In 2006 Peter joined Wintershall the largest Germany Oil and Gas Company as geomodeling specialist and research geologist. Peter is now the global review lead for exploration, being responsible for all exploration project reviews in Wintershall.

Ben Dewever is a carbonate geologist at Shell, involved in reservoir characterization studies for the oil & gas industry. His main interests are with modelling and subsurface integration studies (geochemistry, sedimentology, diagenesis, seismic and basin modelling). His professional career started in Maersk Oil after which he joined Panterra Geoconsultants in the Netherlands before joining Shell in 2012. He earned a PhD in geology from Leuven University in 2008, focusing on fluid flow reconstruction in fold and thrust belts. In 2018, he graduated from an additional MSc Energy Management at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, with a study on “The role of Oil & Gas companies in the geothermal energy development”. Most recently, he has been involved in efforts in Shell to map out the role of the geoscientist community in the energy transition.

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Catherine Witt is a Reservoir Engineer by background, currently in BP’s global subsurface assurance team, based in Aberdeen. Catherine is from Oxford, England, and graduated in Engineering Science (MEng, Oxford University) in 1994 and then joined BP as a Reservoir engineer. Since then she has held a variety of technical and leadership roles in BP, in the UK, Norway, Angola, and for the last 4 yrs was Reservoir Development Manager for the Clair field, West of Shetlands. Catherine has for a long time had a keen interest in the energy transition and six months ago moved into her current role which includes accountability for subsurface technical assurance of Carbon Storage projects in BP. Catherine is also the Segment Reserves Authority in BP and recently joined the UNFC (UN Framework Classification for Resources) Working Group on Injection Projects for Geological Storage.

Dr. Christian Bücker, Geophysicist, Senior Advisor in a German company for hydrocarbon exploration and production. Special field: borehole geophysics. Diverse experience from the participation in Scientific Drilling projects such as the KTB (Continental Deep Drilling Program) of the Federal Republic of Germany, the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and the Cape Roberts Antarctic Drilling Project (CRP). Research stays in Antarctica and New Zealand. Long-term activity on wells of the hydrocarbon industry in the Domestically and abroad. Cooperation in scientific advisory boards at Kiel University and LIAG Institute Hanover, and lecturer at the University of Hamburg for Borehole Geophysics. His special interest lies in borehole measurements and a statistically verified objective evaluation of the underlying rock-physical parameters.

Christoph Hilgers is full professor for Structural Geology and Tectonics and executive director of the Institute of Applied Geosciences at KIT. His interests are energy systems, raw-material efficiency, reservoir quality prediction, transnational higher education as well as process- and strategy analyses. After his studies at RWTH Aachen University and Imperial College London, he worked as researcher before moving to Quality Management & Metrology, Production Engineering (WZL) at RWTH Aachen. Here he designed and planned GUtech as subsidiary of OES LLC, which he then set-up and managed in Muscat, Oman. He later became professor of Reservoir-Petrology at RWTH Aachen University before moving to KIT in 2016. Chris is a member of the State’s ThinkTank Industrial Resources Strategies and RawMaterialsKnowledge e.V., of the scientific board of DGMK, and an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Corinna Abesser is a hydrogeologist and numerical modeller at the British Geological Survey (BGS)with more than 20 years experience in environmental and energy-related research. She joined BGS in 2003 after earning an MSc in Hydrogeology from the Technical University Berlin (Germany) and a PhD in Hydrochemistry from the University of St Andrews (UK). Her career included research and supervisory roles on projects related to resource assessment and sustainable use, environmental impacts and policy. Since February 2018, she leads the Geothermal Energy Programme at the BGS, developing research programmes for shallow and deep geothermal energy applications. Her research interest include subsurface governance, resource characterisation and management as well as investigating permeability development and mechanisms in different geothermal plays.

After graduating with honors at Milan University in Geology he joined Eni in 1991. He has been spending all his career with Eni covering assignments both international and domestic. After more a decade abroad he returned in Eni HQ in San Donato Milanese being appointed Manager of the Seismic Imaging department, then serving in R&D as Manager for the whole Exploration and Reservoir R&D. The next step, in 2009, has been becoming R&D Manager for the Technology Planning for the whole Eni group spanning from G&G to the most downstream activities such as petrochemical, with accountability on the Technology plan of Saipem (EPC) too. In 2011 he returned in Exploration becoming Vice President Unconventional with world wide responsibility on the whole business. Since 2016 he has been appointed to the current role of Vice President G&G Operations and Services with world wide responsibility of the activities covering Seismic, Geophysics, Geomatics, Well Planning and Subsurface Geology. Since 2004 he has been extremely active in International Professional Organizations such as EAGE, SEG, IOGP and very recently in IAGC. He has been covering different Chairmanships in different committees inclusive of the Research Committee of EAGE and in that role serving in the EAGE Board. In 2009 he became VP elected of EAGE, in 2010 Vice President, and in 2011 he has been elected EAGE PRESIDENT 2011. Under his tenure EAGE significantly expanded his presence outside the European boundaries. He owns two international Patents on Seismic Acquisition. He enjoys his spare time with his family in open air sports (Mountain Bike, Nordic Walking) and he his an eager Mineral Collector.

Eléonore Dalmais is a geosciences engineer graduated from Nancy National School of Geology, with a solid experience in resources exploration, 3D modelling and geophysical logging. After five years working for uranium mining, she joined ES-Géothermie in 2013 where she contributes to the exploration and targeting of deep geothermal wells in Alsace. Recently, she was deeply involved in activities related to drilling and testing of the first well in Illkirch. She is also involved in Rittershoffen geothermal plant exploitation as referent in radiation protection. She participated to several national and international R&D projects dealing with geothermal energy. She is currently involved in MEET research project coordination. This project, funded by Europe under H2020 program, aims at boosting the development of deep geothermal energy in various geological conditions. In this project, she is also leading the work package dedicated to optimization of exiting EGS plant.

Fausto Batini graduated in Earth Science at the University of Florence in 1975. He started working with Enel S.p.A., now Enel Green Power, in 1976 as geothermal exploration geoscientist and the acquired over 40 years of international experience in the geothermal energy sector holding different leading positions over the time: R&D of innovative technologies for exploration, well field testing and monitoring, environmental monitoring, exploration management, worldwide business development management. He has large knowledge of geothermal market of the Americas where served as Chief Technical Officer of ENG s.a. (Chile) and Vice President Enel Geothermal LLC (USA). He currently holds the positions of Chief Technical Officer of Magma Energy Italia, President of Geothermal Energy Consulting s.r.l, Technical Coordinator of Rete Geotermica (Cluster of Italian enterprises of geothermal sector) and Chairman of the ETIP_DG (European Technlogy and Innovation Platform on Deep Geothermal).

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Since September 2019 Glen is the Executive Director of the European Federation of Geologists, a professional body that represents the interests of 26 national geological associations across Europe. Its core aims are to promote excellence in the application of geology and public engagement with its importance for society. EFG offers leadership in the energy transition by contributing both technical and outreach expertise to a number of EU-funded projects concerned with geothermal energy, sustainable mining, stakeholder communication and future skills development. It also coordinates several Expert Panels dedicated to energy transition topics. Glen previously worked as a subsurface specialist in Upstream Oil & Gas, first as a front-line geoscientist, then for a decade as a management advisor on governance topics such as project assurance, collaboration, workflow design and technology selection. He was an originator and co-chair of several recent cross-industry Geological Society of London conferences on managing risk and the building of geological models and was a co-founder of the SPE’s Technical Section of Geomechanics. He holds a Masters of Science in Petroleum Geoscience and a Diplôme d’ingénieur from the Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs (IFP-ENSPM) in Paris and a Bachelors of Science in Geophysics from the University of Edinburgh. He is a Platinum Member of the EAGE.

Dr. Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol is a Research and Public Policy Chief Officer at the Direction of Development of BRGM, the French Geological Survey. Her PhD (1988) and initial career were addressing geothermal energy. Since 1993, she has been involved in CO2 storage research for mitigating climate change. Currently, she is the President Emeritus of the CO2GeoNet Association, the European Network of Excellence on the geological storage of CO2, and coordinates the French node of ECCSEL, the European Research Infrastructure on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS). Since 2007, she is the French representative of ENeRG, the European network for research on geo-energy, and was elected President for 2016 and 2017. She has extensive experience in organizing international events. Recently she was co-chair of the European Workshop on Underground Energy Storage organized in Paris on Nov. 2019, and member of the organizing committee of the four EAGE Sustainable Earth Sciences Conferences held in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 (Chair in 2015).

Jonathan Shearman has been with ExxonMobil for 21 years and has held various geoscience supervisory positions working on projects in areas including the North Sea, East Africa and the Black Sea. Jonathan is currently the supervisor of subsurface technical support for the Europe, Caspian and Middle East region at ExxonMobil and also leads ExxonMobil’s European Geoscience recruitment activities.

Jose Maria Gonzalez Muñoz holds a Msc in Geology & Postgraduate degree in E&P from French Petroleum Institute (ENSPM-IFP). Jose joined REPSOL in 1999, starting up as Seismic Interpreter & Geologist (1999-2005). He worked as Geological Operations Team Leader in Libya (2006-2009) & Peru (2011-2013), as Geological Operations Manager / Acting Country Manager (2014-2015) in Iraq, and Libya Exploration Manager (2015). Jose participated & defined, as Exploration Cost Efficiency Manager, the first Repsol integrated worldwide Cost Efficiency program 2016. From 2017 to 2020 he worked as Exploration America Geological Exploration Manager. Since Q2-2020 he is the Manager of the new Carbon Geological Storage Projects & Studies Group in Repsol E&P.

Karin de Borst is a geomechanicist at Shell, developing emerging technologies for the assessment and mitigation of containment risks during hydrocarbon recovery and CO2 storage. Areas of interest include near-wellbore failure, data-driven geomechanics and uncertainty quantification, crossing length scales and disciplinary borders. Since September 2019, she is the Chair of the EAGE Special Interest Community ‘Decarbonization and Energy Transition’, which aims at promoting the energy transition among geoscientists and at developing the required skills for its delivery. She joined Shell in 2015 after a career in academia, where she was Reader at the University of Glasgow. She is a civil engineer and earned a PhD in computational mechanics and materials science from Vienna University of Technology. Her academic career was marked by an affinity to applications, and by a strong support for young scientists and collaboration.

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Lisa Chisholm is a Geoscientist with over 15 years’ experience working in both exploration and development petroleum basins around the world. Currently she is working for PETRONAS, the Malaysian National Oil Company based in Kuala Lumpur. Lisa graduated with a BSc in Geoscience from Leeds University, followed by an MSc in Reservoir Evaluation and Management from Heriot-Watt University and has recently completed her MBA. With a broad skill set covering project integration, analysis and management her specialties are in planning and delivering Field Development Plans with an emphasis on well planning and execution. She has worked globally and also spent time working for consultants, a major operator and a National Oil Company. She enjoys working within culturally and technically diverse teams and environments. Her passion to promote Geoscience and the energy industry has led to many involvements with various networks and associations and she is a keen mentor and coach to junior professionals.

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Lucia Levato’s career spans over 30 years covering research, technical developments, marketing, teaching, training, coaching and mentoring in technical areas as well as in interpersonal communications. Whether in charge of relations with several research institutes in the framework of international collaborations, or in charge of coordinating multiple worldwide projects across business divisions, geographies and diversified teams, she always managed to inspire commitment and to foster cohesion in a broad range of situations and environments, more specifically, in the sector of geoscience services in the Oil & Gas industry. Her travel across continents and her various experiences covered the African and Middle East markets. Lucia obtained a MSc degree in Physics from the University of Rome, and a PhD in Earth Science from the University of Geneva. The results of her research were presented at international conferences and published in peer-review journals. She holds gold EAGE membership status and in September 2018 she was one of the founding members of the EAGE Local Chapter in Paris, where she acts as Head of Events. Building on her strong conviction that communication and interpersonal relations are the key additional skills necessary to transform a “technical-knowledge based team” into a superior team, she completed her education with certifications in the areas of interpersonal communications, team building and motivational workshops. She is currently a certified coach and a practitioner of the “TRIMA” competencies approach, and of “Insights Discovery”. In 2017 she has created her own agency, based in Paris “to help organizations cope with energy and digital transitions by unleashing the full potential of their individual and collective talents”.

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Maximilian Haas holds a bachelor’s degree in “Applied Geosciences” and a master’s degree in “Applied Geophysics” with a specialization in “Geomechanics & Environmental Geology” from Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. His internships included companies such as Rohölaufsuchungs-AG (RAG), Central Institute for Meteorology & Geodynamics, HOT-Engineering or the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). He completed his master thesis at the AWI in Bremerhaven, Germany processing 2D seismic and borehole data and was part of a six weeks offshore expedition on the Indian Ocean to acquire seismic data (reflection & refraction), geomagnetic, gravimetric and bathymetric data. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland in cooperation with the University of Geneva and Montanuniversität Leoben to study for a geophysical, geomechanical and mineralogical re-use model for the molasse material in the Geneva basin as part of CERN’s 100 km Future Circular Collider (FCC) study.

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Peter Zweigel holds the position as Leading Advisor CCUS at Equinor in Trondheim, Norway. This position covers coordination of the company’s technology portfolio, advice to management and QA/QC tasks for the whole chain from CO2 capture through transport to storage and utilization. Being of German nationality, Peter was educated as a geologist at the universities of Mainz (D), Edinburgh (UK) and Bochum (D) and received a PhD from Tübingen University (D) on the tectonic evolution of the Carpathians. After a post-doc he joined Sintef Petroleum Research in Trondheim, Norway, in 1998, working as a reservoir geologist and project manager on petroleum field development studies and CO2 storage topics. Scientific follow-up of the Sleipner CO2 storage project was one of his main tasks. In 2006 he moved to Statoil (now Equinor), first in research, then in production where he held technical and management positions until 2016 when he returned to CCUS topics in his present position.

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Stefan Buske is a professor of applied geophysics/exploration geophysics at Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany). He earned a PhD and a diploma in geophysics at University of Frankfurt (Germany) and has worked in the Depth Imaging Department at Ensign Geophysics Ltd. and as head of the Seismic Data Laboratory, Department of Geophysics at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). He received the Louis Cagniard Award from EAGE in 2004 and the outstanding teaching award from the German Geophysical Society in 2019. His research interests include seismic acquisition, processing, modelling and imaging including applications for geothermal and mineral exploration, investigation of fault systems and deep seismic sounding of the lithosphere.

Sylvain started working on CO2 geological storage in 2000, with contributions to Sleipner CO2 storage related to flow modeling, gravimetric monitoring and chemical impact assessment. He coordinates operational CO2 geological storage studies for Total assets. AS such, he also lead the geosciences and reservoir aspects of the Lacq demonstration pilot where 51 000 tonnes of CO2 were captured, transported and injected onshore France between 2010 and 2013. Sylvain’s main topic of interest is CO2 geological storage resource assessment of saline aquifers. Sylvain Thibeau is the author of over 30 publications related to CO2 geological storage, four of them cited more than 100 times. He is also co-editor of two books (Results of CO2Store R&D project and Results of the Lacq demonstration pilot).

After two years of HEC preparatory class, Virginie Schmidlé-Bloch completed a Master's degree in "Management of organizations » in ICN Business School and subsequently obtained a German degree in environmental management, "Betriebswirtschaft" at Nurnberg Fachhochschule. From her first professional experiences, she chose to work in the fields of the environment, ecology and energy and to evolve in an international context with the use of the German and English languages. Since 2011, she has held the position of Secretary general at AFPG where she is in charge of coordinating the works of the organisation, managing the permanent team and implementing the strategy. Since the creation of GEODEEP, the French geothermal Cluster for Heat and Power in 2014, she has also been responsible for organising these 15 companies export activities notably through the participation in different European projects from the H2020 scheme. She will represent France in the coming IGA Board of Directors, starting in April 2020 with the World Geothermal Congress in Reykjavik.