School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
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Peter Achtziger-Zupančič
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geological Sciences
BioPeter Achtziger-Zupančič received his Diploma of Engineering in Hydrogeology (MSc equivalent) from TU Berlin (Germany) in 2010 and worked in the execution and design of hydraulic, hydro-mechanical, pneumatic and tracer experiments in radioactive disposal research in Switzerland, France and Germany (2008-2012). From 2012-2017 he worked as a research assistant and post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In his PhD research he analyzed large hydraulical data sets on a local to global scale to gain insights in controlling factors of the distribution of hydrogeological parameters in crystalline rock in the upper 2000 m of the Earth's crust. In 2017 he joined SCERF group to explore new methods to assess and visualize uncertainty in mining. Research in hard rock hydrogeology, hydro-mechanics, radioactive disposal remain of interest.
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Maartje Boon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Resources Engineering
BioMaartje Boon joined Stanford University in 2017 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. She combines experimental techniques involving X-Ray CT imaging with numerical modelling to look at the impact of rock structure heterogeneities on multiphase flow properties and its implications for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Boon obtained her PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London where she was part of the Qatar Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (QCCSRC). She developed a new experimental technique to observe solute spreading and mixing in natural consolidated rock. She used experimentally obtained statistical rock descriptions to numerically investigate the impact of rock heterogeneity on reactive transport in porous media.
Her ambition is to become an expert in experimental imaging techniques as well as numerical modelling of reactive transport in porous media. In the future, she would like to have her own research group at one of the leading universities in the field of Energy Sustainability. -
Meritxell Gran
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Resources Engineering
BioMeritxell Gran is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Benson Lab since 2016 where she has been applying her knowledge on multiphase flow to carbon sequestration studies. She works on multiphase flow experiments in fractured basalt rocks to study the nature of the multiphase fluid interactions in a fracture. These experiments combine core-flooding with two different scan imaging techniques: X-Ray CT and PET (Positron Emission Tomography). From these, she obtains fracture relative permeability curves and gains understanding on the fundamentals of multiphase flow in fractures.
Meritxell is a geological engineer and she obtained her doctoral degree in the Hydrogeology Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). During her thesis she studied the behavior of water and energy fluxes in dry soils, focusing on evaporation and water-energy transfer mechanisms. She used two different scales, laboratory- and field-scale, and applied two methodologies, experiments and numerical modeling. -
Julio Enrique Herrera Estrada
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Earth System Science
BioJulio E. Herrera Estrada is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University’s Department of Earth System Science working with Prof. Noah Diffenbaugh. He uses satellite data to calculate the impacts that climate extremes have had on electricity generation globally. Moreover, Julio is interested in developing recommendations for sustainable and resilient management of complex water-energy-food systems, and implementing risk identification, prevention, and management mechanisms for droughts and other natural hazards.
Prior to Stanford, Julio obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources at Princeton University, where he also pursued a certificate in Science Technology, and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, Julio studied various aspects of droughts, including how they evolve in time and space and how they may be affected by climate change. He also quantified the impacts that droughts have had on pollutant emissions from the electricity sector in the Western U.S.
Julio was awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in 2014, and in 2015 he participated in the Young Scientists Summer Program at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He has presented at several conferences including the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, and has been invited to present at The World Bank Group. In 2015, Julio co-founded Highwire Earth, an interdisciplinary online publication on sustainable development, where the Princeton University community can share their work and insights. He also served as President of the Latino Graduate Student Association and of the Graduate Student Representatives in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Princeton.
Julio received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. There he was involved with the Columbia International Relations Council and Association and the Columbia Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Julio is originally from Mexico City, Mexico.
