PhD fellowships

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Current fellowships

Jalileh Nasseri, 2025-2028, Depositional and post-depositional processes of the Great Oolite (Jurassic, Upper Rhine Graben): paleo-environments, geodynamic significance, and implications for reservoir properties (Co-financed by ITI GeoT and ED413)

Pablo Barrera-Lopez, 2025-2028, Deciphering Active Deformation in the Rhine Graben: Integrated Geodetic and Seismic Analysis of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (Co-financed by ITI GeoT and ED413)

Morgane Platon, 2024-2027, To survey the players in the controversy on the role that EOST observatory should play in the implementation of subsoil exploration projects (co-financed by ITI GeoT and PEPR sous sol PC9)

Kamal Ahmadov, 2024-2027, Coupling between pressure and opening during fluid migration along a fault – implication for remote induced seismicity triggering (Financed by ITI GeoT)

Jérôme Arnaud, 2024-2027, Mining renewal and project governance: changes in the involvement of public and industrial players in deep geothermal developments in Alsace since 2010 (Financed by PEPR sous-sol PC9)

Kamal Bayramov, 2024-2027, Compaction localisation in porous volcanic rocks (Financed by Azerbaijan government)

Malik Abdullayev, 2024-2027, Architectural Characterization of the Upper Triassic Bunsandstein Formation_Conglomerat Principal (Financed by Azerbaijan government)

Sarvar Mammadov, 2024-2027, Deformation, failure and fluid flow in carbonates around geothermal sites in Alsace (Financed by Azerbaijan government)

Anna Wallentin, 2023-2026, Native Hydrogen in Granitic Geothermal Reservoirs (Financed by ITI GeoT)

Gabriela Knobelock, 2023-2026, Temporal and Spatial Evolution of the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein Formation (Financed by ITI GeoT)

Rachit Gautam, 2023-2026, Induced seismicity at the Balmatt geothermal doublet (northern Belgium) (Financed by INERIS)

Flavien Mattern, 2023-2026, 4D passive monitoring of a deep geothermal reservoir in the Strasbourg area by interferometric approaches using ambient seismic noise and induced earthquakes (Co-financed by ITI GeoT and ED413)

Yunliang Wang, 2022-2025, Monitoring deep geothermal reservoir deformation with Coda Wave Interferrometry (Financed by the China Scholarship Council)

Rémi Fiori, 2021-2024, Optimising monitoring networks for induced seismicity detection in an urban context: application to the development of deep geothermal energy (Co-financed by the LabEx G-eau-thermie Profonde and ADEME)

Defended PhDs

Lucas Bofill, 2021-2024, From outcrop to fluid flow: sedimentary architecture, permeability heterogeneity, and the effect of sedimentary facies in fluid flow modeling: a case study of continental sandstones of the Middle Buntsandstein (Triassic, eastern France) (Financed by ED413)

Kamel Drif, 2019-2022, Development of advanced microseismic monitoring and machine learning tools for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) (Financed by INERIS)

Weiwei Shu, 2020-2023, Analogical modelling of frictional slip on faults: implications for induced and triggered seismicity (Financed by the China Scholarship Council and ITI GeoT)

Dariush Javani, 2018-2023, Modelling P-wave velocity variations related to aseismic slip in a fractured reservoir (Financed by Total and ITI GeoT)

Qinglin Deng, 2019-2022, Multi-scale hydro-mechanical behaviour of rough fracture: implications for EGS reservoir stimulation (Financed by the China Scholarship Council)