Experimental Geophysics group photo, Summer 2024 Experimental Geophysics Staff Scientific Staff Prof. Dr. Joerg Renner Head of the Working Group Dr. Shahram Danaei Postdoctoral researcher Selong Edem PhD student Fikri Zain Karim PhD student Dr. Evangelos Korkolis Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Hadiseh Mansouri Postdoctoral researcher Chinedu Mgbolu PhD student Fahim Mumand PhD student Kristhian Leandro Peña Cerón PhD student Research Support Christina Rauch Research support manager Research Department: Subsurface Modeling & Engineering Lab assistants Current Fatmaelzahra Elkhayat, MSc Nadja Griese Alahi JeeganahalliInayathbasha Swatti Swatti Technical Staff and Secretary Frank Bettenstedt Laboratory Technician IB 03/156 Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-26198 Sandra Wagner Secretary IA 4/69 Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-23270 office-geophysik % ruhr-uni-bochum.de Former Scientific Staff Moïra Nouvel-Blondel Intern, EOST, Université de Strasbourg, June-August 2024 Dr. Victoria Jiménez PhD student and postdoc until 2024, now at the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) Bhupesh Meher Guest researcher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Nov. 2023 - Jan. 2024 Zahoor Noori PhD student, until 2023 Dr. Yan Cheng Postdoc, until 2023 Dr. Sarah Incel Postdoc until 2022, now at Imperial College, London, England Dr. Marieke Rempe Postdoc until 2022, now at the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) Dr. Dongmei Yu PhD student and PostDoc, until 2021 Dr. Bernard Adero PhD student, until 2021 "Experimental investigations of mechanical anisotropy of Freiberg gneiss: implications for hydraulic stimulation" Dr. Hongwei Yang Postdoc, until 2021, now assoc. professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Dr. Max Kewel PhD student, until 2020 "Experimental investigations into the hydro-mechanical properties of rocks containing fractures" Dr. Peter Achtziger Postdoc, until 2020 Dr. Benedikt Ahrens PhD student, until 2017 "Experimental analysis of the frequency dependence of elastic and hydraulic properties of fractured rocks" Dr. Thomas Andolfsson PhD student, until 2017 "Thermal properties of rocks: A periodic solution of thermal diffusion and its application to the pressure dependency of thermal properties" Dr. Mariela Hernandez PhD student, until 2017 "Experimental investigation into the evolution of hydraulic properties of fractured rocks at conditions representative of deep geothermal reservoirs" Dr. Michael Krause PhD student, until 2017 "Experimental investigation of propagation mechanisms of stimulation-induced fractures under in-situ conditions" Dr. Laura Fischer PhD student, until 2016 "Auswertung von freien Druckschwingungen in Bohrlochversuchen und erzwungenen Druckschwingungen in Laborversuchen zur Bestimmung hydraulischer Eigenschaften" Dr. Mandy Duda PhD student/PostDoc, until 2014, now in the working group Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics "An integrated experimental study on elastic and inelastic properties of sandstones and the role of transient pore pressure" Dr. Tom Mitchell Postdoc, 11/2009 - 11/2011, now professor at University College London, England Eugen Petkau PhD student, 03/2007 - 09/2011 Audrey Tison PhD student, 09/2006 - 12/2010 Dr. Insun Song 2003 - 2008 Dr. Alexis Maineult 10/2005 - 06/2006 Dr. Jan ter Heege Postdoc 07/2002 - 12/2005, now at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) Alexander Graphchikov 2003 & 2005 Dr. Anthony Druiventak PhD student, until 2013 "Experimental high-stress deformation and annealing of peridotite – simulating coseismic deformation and postseismic creep in the upper mantle of the oceanic lithosphere"