GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

Dr. Valerian Schuster

Valerian Schuster
Scientist
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"

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