Dr. Mauro Cacace
Building
C 4,
Room
1.14 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
- Senior Scientist - - working group leader 4D coupled process modelling
- Lecturer at the Technical University in Berlin (TUB)
Research Interests:
- Basin-applied hydro-thermal-mechanical simulations
- Geothermal potential of sedimentary basins
- Fluid-rock matrix interaction in fractured systems
- Stress, deformation and Rheology
- Induced and natural seismicity
Career:
- 2014 - 2016 Research associate / Postdoctoral position GFZ Potsdam
- 2012 - 2014 Research associate / Postdoctoral position GFZ Potsdam
- 2011 - 2012 Project Leader - Internationale Zusammenarbeit in Bildung und Forschung mit Neuseeland.
- 2011 - 2012 Visiting academic scientist at Industrial Research Limited (IRL), Wellington NZ
- 2009 - 2012 Research associate at the University of Potsdam
- 2008 - 2009 Research associate at the GFZ Potsdam
- 2007 - 2008 Visiting academic scientist at CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth WA
- 2005 - 2008 PhD student at the Free University Berlin
- 2017 - 2017 - today Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) - rocks & reservoir machanics
- 2016 - 2017 Universität Potsdam “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
- 2015 - 2016 Potsdam University “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
- 2014 - 2015 Potsdam University “Geologie der Kohlwasserstoffe”
- 2013 - 2014 Potsdam University “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
- 2012 - 2013 Potsdam University “Geodynamik von sedimentären Becken”
- 2012 GeoEn Summer School – geothermal technologies and modelling
- 2011 GeoEn Summer School – geothermal technologies and modelling
- 2007 - 2009 Free University Berlin „Grundlagen Beckenanalyse und Beckenmodellierung “
Education:
- 2008 Freie Universität Berlin: Dr. rer. nat. (mit Auszeichnung)
- 2005 Universität Mailand (Italien): Diplom Physiker
Projects:
Ongoing projects- Control of geological structures on the coupled fluid and heat transport (Groß Schönebeck & Brandenburg, NE-German Basin)
- 3D modelling of fractured geothermal reservoirs
- Exploration of geothermal potential for the city of Berlin
- ESM - Earth System Modelling
Completed projects
- GeoEn - Joint Research Project on GeoEnergy Research. BMBF grant 03G0671A/B/C
- Environmantal effects of Hot and Saline Spring Behaviour in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) and the Northeast German Basin (NEGB).BMBF grant: Kooperation international (01DR12042)
- Regional models of coupled transport of fluid and heat
- 3D structural modelling of brandenburg (NE German Basin) and evaluation of the dominat control mechanisms for the present-day thermal field
- Stress and strain modelling of the Cebs DFG SPP 1135 projekt "Dynamik sedimntär Systeme unter wechselden Spannungsregimen am Beispiel des zentraleuropäischen Beckens"
- High performance computing in geology - Two phase (NaCl-H20) convective flow in sedimentary basins and the influence of salt tectonic.
Research Boards and Committees:
- Editorial Board member of the journal Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)Awards:
- 2011 - 2012 BMBF grant: Kooperation international (nr: 01DR12042): “Environmental effects on Hot and Saline Spring Behaviour in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) and the Northeast German Basin (NEGB)”.
- 2007 - 2008 Visiting grant (MDU DISCOVERY OUTREACH PROGRAM-pmd*CRC/iVEC) at CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth Western Australia.
- 2008 Best Doctoral thesis at the Free University – faculty of Earth Sciences – and nomination for the Ernst Reuter Prize award.
- 2008 Dr. rer. nat. Summa cum Laude (mit Auszeichnung) - Free University Berlin, Germany.
- 2019 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2017 Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
- 2016 University of Padua, Faculty of Geosciences, Padua Italy
- 2015 Weierstrass Institute for Applied and Stochastic (WIAS) Berlin, Germany.
- 2012 34th International Geological Congress IGC, Brisbane, Australia.
- 2012 Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ Leipzig, Germany.
- 2010 Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
- 2010 Weierstrass Institute for Applied and Stochastic (WIAS) Berlin, Germany.