Jens Birkholzer

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  Jens Birkholzer is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, Berkeley Lab) and currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD), a premier research organization of ~250 staff and affiliates with expertise in hydrogeology, geochemistry, geomechanics and other related disciplines. Previously, Jens led EGD as its inaugural Director (from 2015 till July 2024) but recently stepped back from his leadership position to focus on selected research initiatives/projects within LBNL as well as strategic advisory/consulting roles outside of Berkeley Lab. Jens is an internationally recognized expert in subsurface energy applications. His area of expertise is subsurface hydrology with emphasis on coupled fluid, gas, solute and heat transport in complex subsurface systems. His research is mostly in the context of modeling and data evaluation related to risk/performance assessment, e.g., for geologic disposal of radioactive wastes, for geologic CO2 storage, and for environmental remediation. In the area of radioactive waste disposal, he has focused on understanding temperature-driven flow and transport processes within and near waste emplacement tunnels, via experiments and predictive modeling. In the area of CO2 storage, Jens works on better understanding the potential environmental risks of geologic carbon seques­tration to groundwater resources, for example by monitoring and modeling the potential water quality changes arising from leakage of CO2 through fractures and faults into potable aquifers. Jens received his Ph.D. in water resources, hydrology, and soil science from Aachen University of Technology in Germany in 1994. He joined LBNL in 1994, left for a management position in his native Germany in 1999, and eventually returned to Berkeley Lab in 2001. He has over 400 scientific publications, about 170 of which are in peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (IJGGC), the Energies Journal (Geo-Energy Section), the Journal of Sustainable Energy Engineering, and is also on the Board of Editorial Policy Advisors for the Journal of Geomechanics for Energy and Environment (GETE). He leads the international DECOVALEX Project as its Chairman, is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. Jb Geoconsult

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  Jens Birkholzer is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, Berkeley Lab) and currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD), a premier research organization of ~250 staff and affiliates with expertise in hydrogeology, geochemistry, geomechanics and other related disciplines. Previously, Jens led EGD as its inaugural Director (from 2015 till July 2024) but recently stepped back from his leadership position to focus on selected research initiatives/projects within LBNL as well as strategic advisory/consulting roles outside of Berkeley Lab. Jens is an internationally recognized expert in subsurface energy applications. His area of expertise is subsurface hydrology with emphasis on coupled fluid, gas, solute and heat transport in complex subsurface systems. His research is mostly in the context of modeling and data evaluation related to risk/performance assessment, e.g., for geologic disposal of radioactive wastes, for geologic CO2 storage, and for environmental remediation. In the area of radioactive waste disposal, he has focused on understanding temperature-driven flow and transport processes within and near waste emplacement tunnels, via experiments and predictive modeling. In the area of CO2 storage, Jens works on better understanding the potential environmental risks of geologic carbon seques­tration to groundwater resources, for example by monitoring and modeling the potential water quality changes arising from leakage of CO2 through fractures and faults into potable aquifers. Jens received his Ph.D. in water resources, hydrology, and soil science from Aachen University of Technology in Germany in 1994. He joined LBNL in 1994, left for a management position in his native Germany in 1999, and eventually returned to Berkeley Lab in 2001. He has over 400 scientific publications, about 170 of which are in peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (IJGGC), the Energies Journal (Geo-Energy Section), the Journal of Sustainable Energy Engineering, and is also on the Board of Editorial Policy Advisors for the Journal of Geomechanics for Energy and Environment (GETE). He leads the international DECOVALEX Project as its Chairman, is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology.

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  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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