Principal Investigator

Volker C. Vahrenkamp

​​Professor Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests: Modern & Ancient Carbonates, Diagenesis, Chemostratigraphy, OAE's, Carbonate Reservoirs, Reservoir Modelling and Heterogenity, Geothermal Energy

Research Scientist

Viswasanthi Chandra

Research Scientist

Alexander Petrovic

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Sequence Stratigraphy, Marine Geology, Modern and fossil carbonates, Reservoir architectures, Analogue studies

Postdoctoral Fellows

Andika Perbawa

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Geomechanics, CO2 studies, Rock Physics, Reservoir Characterization, Seismic Interpretation, Geological Modeling

Yuri Panara

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Structural geology, Digital photogrammetry, Carbonate Geology, Remote sensing

Thomas Teillet

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Chemostratigraphy, Carbonate sedimentology, Diagenesis, Reservoir Modelling and Heterogenity

PhD Students

Francesca Giovenzana

PhD Student

Research Interests: Modern and fossil foraminifera, Paleoecology, Micropaleontology, Carbonate sedimentology, Geochemistry

Kai Hachman

PhD Student

Manuel Eduardo Ariza Fuentes

PhD Student

Research Interests: Astrogeology, Mass extinctions, Carbonate sedimentology, Paleoclimate

Muhammad Usman

PhD Student

Research Interests: Source rock compositional heterogeneity, Organic & Inorganic geochemistry, Reservoir Characterization, Basin modeling, Artificial maturation, Thermal characterization, Hydrogen generation & storage

Indra Arifianto

PhD Student

Xin Liu

PhD Student

Regina Iakusheva

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Carbonate Reservoirs, Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Geomechanics, Petroleum engineering

Akbar Nugroho Wicaksono

PhD Student

Research Interests: Carbonate Reservoirs, Reservoir Modelling and Heterogenity, High Resolution Reservoir Characterization, Sequence Stratigraphy, Modern & Ancient Carbonates

Ahmad Ihsan Ramdani

PhD Student

Research Interests: High Resolution Reservoir Characterization, Carbonate Geology, Reservoir Modelling and Heterogenity

Gaurav Siddharth Gairola

PhD Student

Research Interests: Carbonate Reservoirs, Sequence Stratigraphy, Well logging and Seismic

Indah Putri

PhD Student

Research Interests: Carbonate Reservoirs, Reservoir Modelling and Heterogenity, Carbonate Geology, Sequence Stratigraphy

Masters Students

Victor Fonseca

MS Student

Sebastian Patiño

MS Student

Research Interests: Reservoir Modelling and Heterogenity, Well logging and Seismic, Carbonate Reservoirs, Sequence Stratigraphy, Structural geology

Maria Ardila Sanchez

MS Student

Research Interests: Carbonate Reservoirs, Sequence Stratigraphy

VSRP Students

Dominik Patrick Nommensen

VSRP student

Research Interests: Marine Geology, Modern & Ancient Carbonates, Paleoclimate, (Micro-)paleontology, Seafloor mapping

Administrative Support

Marika Panagiotou

Lab Technician

Marwa Ghammam

Administrative Assistant