Dr. Valerian Schuster
Building
C,
Room
420 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Career:
- Since 09/2022
Researcher (Postdoctoral Fellow), GFZ Potsdam, GFZ Potsdam, Section 4.2 Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling, Project: "Assessing the relative contributions of fluid pressure and elastic stress perturbations to induced seismic energy release” funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) - 02/2019 - 08/2022
Research assistant (PhD student), GFZ Potsdam, Section 4.2 Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling, Project: "iCross: Integrity of Repository Systems for Radioactive Waste - Interdisciplinary System Understanding and System Analysis"
- 04/2018 - 02/2019
Research assistant, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Department of Applied Geothermal Energy, "Re-Salt: Reactive Reservoir Systems - Solution and Precipitation of Salts and the Effects on Hydraulic and Mechanical Rock Mass Properties"
- 11/2016 - 02/2017
Student assistant, Technical University Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Department of Applied Geothermal Energy
Education:
- 02/2019 - 10/2022
PhD "Geosciences", Universität Potsdam, „Mechanical and hydraulic properties of Opalinus Clay: influence of compositional heterogeneity and thermodynamic boundary conditions” - 10/2015 - 12/2017
Master program "Applied Geosciences", Technische Universität Darmstadt, focus: engineering geology, hydrogeochemistry, geothermal energy
Master thesis: "Coupled hydromechanical thermo-triaxial tests on sandstone samples for the determination of poroelastic parameters" - 10/2012 - 09/2015
Bachelor program "Geosciences", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, focus: applied geology, sedimentary petrography, analytical geochemistry
Bachelor thesis: "Investigations on the hydraulic permeability and fracture caused permeability anisotropy of core material from a geothermal test field"