The Director of the Institute of Geoenergy (IG/FORTH), Professor Ioannis Gentekakis, hereby announces a Call for Expressions of Interest for the recruitment of one (1) Scientific Associate – Early Stage Researcher (ESR) under a fixed-term private law employment contract. The successful candidate will work on the subject: "Energy and Subsurface Storage of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide within the Framework of the Energy Transition: Geological and Geochemical Parameters" within the framework of the research project entitled "Twinning to Sustainable Energy Transition" (acronym: TWINN2SET, Grant Agreement No. 101079246), funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe, with project code ΕΥΖ00022.
The Postdoctoral Researcher is expected to contribute to the development of innovative efficient technologies for hydrogen and CO2 storage into geological formations. Relevant tasks will involve the determination of the spatial distribution of porosities and permeabilities, the investigation of alterations in the petrophysics properties of reservoir rocks and evaluation of effective migration of gases through porous media. A second area of research will focus on a number of coupled processes, including two-phase flow and transport, thermodynamic equilibria, dissolution and precipitation of minerals at the reservoir scale.
The position is a full-time PhD student position funded by the European Commission under the Twinning programme (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03). The TWINN2SET project consists of a capacity-building and mentoring programme in the fields of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Deep Geothermal Energy and Subsurface Hydrogen Storage. The programme is complemented by an exploratory research project focusing on hydrogen storage in geological formations. The research combines hydrogen technologies with subsurface reservoir characterisation, modelling and monitoring.