Function and Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

• Multiphase flow in porous media
• Geological storage of carbon dioxide
• Geothermal reservoir modeling
  
• Coupled Thermo-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical processes
  
• Underground hydrogen storage
• Multiscale geological process modeling

Career:

Education:

2014-2021: PhD in Applied Mechanics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

2010-2014: BTech in Mechanical Engineering at West Bengal University of Technology, India

Projects:

• GeoZeit (06/2022 - 06/2025) - Geotechnologies for a turning point in energy supply in Germany - Energetic and material storage in the deep underground
• CEEGS (11/2022 - 11/2025) – Novel CO2-based electrothermal energy and geological storage system
• DACStorE (09/2022-08/2027) - Direct air capture and storage

Closed projects

• MEET (04/2021-01/2022) -EU Horizon 2020 - Multidisciplinary and multi-context demonstration of Enhanced Geothermal Systems exploration and Exploitation Techniques and potentials
• FiF Underground Hydrogen Storage (04/2021-01/2022) -FiF funded- Measurement of Hydrogen diffusion coefficient n in brine using MD simulation and reservoir scale simulations of underground hydrogen storage 
• ArtemIS (02/2022-06/2023) - BMBF - Expansion of the GeotIS geothermal information system into an internet portal for the heat transition in Germany
  
• HOCLOOP (10/2022-06/2023) - EU Horizon -A circular by design environmentally friendly geothermal energy solution based on a horizontal closed loop

Awards: