URGENT Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is composed by a group of knowledgeable experts, to provide key insights on the geothermal solutions developed and foster their market uptake.
Profiles
Alper Baba
Professor - Izmir Institute of Technology
Alper Baba holds a degree in geology and a doctorate in the field of hydrogeology from the Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir. He has 30 years of experience in hydrogeological and geothermal energy problems in different parts of the world. Since 2010 he has been a professor at Izmir Institute of Technology as a director of International Water Resources Department. He is teaching and conducting research in the field of environmental geology, groundwater contamination, geothermal energy, and hydrogeology. He has coordinated a variety of national and international R&D projects in co-operation with research institutes and companies, among them NATO, World Bank, EBRD, and EU-funded projects.
Andrew Clark
Co-Founder and CEO of RemEX Technologies Limited
Andrew is a geophysicist with more than 40 years of senior management experience in the international seismic data acquisition industry. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of RemEX Technologies Ltd, which provides IoT services to the geophysical industry including real-time ambient noise monitoring for nodal surveys. His career spans the full development of cable-free seismic acquisition technology from the first Single Group Recorder (SGR) system manufactured by GUS and deployed in the 1980s on Amoco crews to the latest nodal technology. He was part of the team at Innoseis BV which took the Tremornet node from prototype to first commercial sales and was subsequently a technical advisor to Inova Geophysical. He is an active member of the EAGE.
Gerhard Diephuis
Independent Consultant - DGBES
All-round veteran practitioner of seismic exploration, acquisition, processing, interpretation in various environments. Strong scientific editorial experience. Ten+ years in geothermal project evaluation.
Albert Genter
President - Genter Geothermal
Genter Geothermal is based on robust expertise with fractured basement reservoirs in deep geothermal energy and lithium. Main skills are exploration, borehole image logs, and environmental monitoring.
Wim Walk
Subsurface Technology Manager - Einstein Telescope
Technology Manager Einstein Telescope Project for Nikhef (Dutch Institute for Sub-atomic Physics). Upon receiving PhD in Physics (from Radboud and Stanford Universities), worked for several years on particle physics at CERN, followed by a 30+ year career in Oil and Gas industry as researcher and technology portfolio manager. Specialized in subsurface technologies including geophysics and geology, and international technology management.
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