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Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady
Senior Scientist at GNS Science
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady is a Senior Scientist at GNS Science, with over two decades of international experience in geothermal energy development and engineering. In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor for Geothermics. His expertise spans subsurface energy storage, geothermal reservoir simulation and engineering, surface facility optimisation, and direct-use applications, with extensive contributions across Japan, Iran, Iceland, El Salvador, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Zealand and Africa, including countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady holds a Doctor of Engineering in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan (2011). He also holds a Master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Iceland (2008), a certificate in geothermal reservoir engineering from the University of Auckland (2009), and a certificate in geothermal utilisation from the United Nations University – Geothermal Training Programme (GRO-GTP) in Iceland (2004).
At Kyushu University, Japan, Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady led research in geothermal plant design and optimisation, applying exergy-based models to a wide range of geothermal systems including flash, binary, combined, and hybrid cycles. This work supported case studies in countries such as Iran (Sabalan), Japan (Takigami), Kenya (Olkaria), Indonesia (Dieng), and the Philippines (Biliran), delivering practical insights for improved feasibility and investment decisions.
He has also been deeply involved in geothermal reservoir simulation and forecasting, contributing to reservoir models for geothermal fields such as Takigami (Japan), Sabalan (Iran), Olkaria (Kenya), and Kotamobagu (Indonesia). Their research has helped bridge subsurface and surface systems in geothermal operations, supporting more effective resource management.
He held academic and research positions at Kyushu University from 2008 to 2014, starting as a PhD researcher, followed by a prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and later as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering. From 2014 to 2017, he served as an Associate Professor at Akita University. He then returned to Kyushu University from 2017 to 2024 as an Associate Professor in both the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation and the Faculty of Engineering. Additionally, from 2016 to 2024, he served as a Lecturer at the JICA Geothermal Training Program, where he delivered lectures to geothermal professionals from developing countries and supervised their projects. Throughout these roles, he was actively involved in international collaborations focused on sustainable geothermal development at the international level.
Professor Eva Schill
Staff Scientist, Geophysics Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA)
Professor Schill is a Staff Scientist in the Geophysics Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) of the Lawrence Berkley National Lab (LBNL) where she serves as the Lead of the Geothermal Systems Programme of the Energy and Geoscience Division. At the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, she is Professor for Geophysics in Reservoir Systems.
Professor Schill is a geologist and geophysicist and deals with geothermal issues from exploration to reservoir behaviour. She combines various geological and geophysical methods to understand the structure of the subsurface. In combination with hydromechanical experiments, Eva is developing new monitoring methods that go beyond the monitoring of induced seismicity and shed light on reservoir processes. She is also working on new technologies to mitigate induced seismicity.
Professor Schill obtained her PhD from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in her native Germany. After her postdoctoral research at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, where she was appointed first Junior Professor for Geothermics. After serving as Professor for Geothermics at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, she was a leading scientist at the KarlsruheInstitute of Technology (KIT), Germany, before joining LBNL. She was also co-editor-in-chief of Geothermics from 2014-2021.
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Dr. Miklos Antics
Managing Director and Associate Partner of both GPC Instrumentation Process (GPC IP) and GEOFLUID France.
Dr Miklos Antics is Managing Director and Associate Partner of both GPC Instrumentation Process (GPC IP) and GEOFLUID France. He has been active during the past 35 years in project development from low to high enthalpy fields in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, England, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya (East African Rift countries), El Salvador, Armenia, and Indonesia.
Dr Antics has developed sustainable reservoir concepts for many geothermal fields by coordinating geoscientific, reservoir engineering and drilling/completion of geothermal projects. He has developed innovative well architectures to maximise heat extraction in a sustainable way. He has also lectured on Geothermal Reservoir Simulation and Sustainable development of geothermal resources at CAS-DEGEOSYS (University of Neuchâtel), several International Summer Schools and seminars.
Dr Antics has authored and co-authored over 75 technical papers and four textbooks.
He has been President of the European Geothermal Council (EGEC) since 2018, and a longtime member of International Geothermal Association (IGA), EGEC, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Geothermal Rising (GRC), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
He holds MSc and PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the Ploiesti (Romania) School of Petrol, and a Diploma in Geothermal Energy Technology from the Geothermal Institute in New Zealand.
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady
Senior Scientist at GNS Science
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady is a Senior Scientist at GNS Science, with over two decades of international experience in geothermal energy development and engineering. In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor for Geothermics. His expertise spans subsurface energy storage, geothermal reservoir simulation and engineering, surface facility optimisation, and direct-use applications, with extensive contributions across Japan, Iran, Iceland, El Salvador, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Zealand and Africa, including countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady holds a Doctor of Engineering in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan (2011). He also holds a Master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Iceland (2008), a certificate in geothermal reservoir engineering from the University of Auckland (2009), and a certificate in geothermal utilisation from the United Nations University – Geothermal Training Programme (GRO-GTP) in Iceland (2004).
At Kyushu University, Japan, Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady led research in geothermal plant design and optimisation, applying exergy-based models to a wide range of geothermal systems including flash, binary, combined, and hybrid cycles. This work supported case studies in countries such as Iran (Sabalan), Japan (Takigami), Kenya (Olkaria), Indonesia (Dieng), and the Philippines (Biliran), delivering practical insights for improved feasibility and investment decisions.
He has also been deeply involved in geothermal reservoir simulation and forecasting, contributing to reservoir models for geothermal fields such as Takigami (Japan), Sabalan (Iran), Olkaria (Kenya), and Kotamobagu (Indonesia). Their research has helped bridge subsurface and surface systems in geothermal operations, supporting more effective resource management.
He held academic and research positions at Kyushu University from 2008 to 2014, starting as a PhD researcher, followed by a prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and later as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering. From 2014 to 2017, he served as an Associate Professor at Akita University. He then returned to Kyushu University from 2017 to 2024 as an Associate Professor in both the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation and the Faculty of Engineering. Additionally, from 2016 to 2024, he served as a Lecturer at the JICA Geothermal Training Program, where he delivered lectures to geothermal professionals from developing countries and supervised their projects. Throughout these roles, he was actively involved in international collaborations focused on sustainable geothermal development at the international level.
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady
Senior Scientist at GNS Science
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady is a Senior Scientist at GNS Science, with over two decades of international experience in geothermal energy development and engineering. In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor for Geothermics. His expertise spans subsurface energy storage, geothermal reservoir simulation and engineering, surface facility optimisation, and direct-use applications, with extensive contributions across Japan, Iran, Iceland, El Salvador, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Zealand and Africa, including countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady holds a Doctor of Engineering in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan (2011). He also holds a Master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Iceland (2008), a certificate in geothermal reservoir engineering from the University of Auckland (2009), and a certificate in geothermal utilisation from the United Nations University – Geothermal Training Programme (GRO-GTP) in Iceland (2004).
At Kyushu University, Japan, Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady led research in geothermal plant design and optimisation, applying exergy-based models to a wide range of geothermal systems including flash, binary, combined, and hybrid cycles. This work supported case studies in countries such as Iran (Sabalan), Japan (Takigami), Kenya (Olkaria), Indonesia (Dieng), and the Philippines (Biliran), delivering practical insights for improved feasibility and investment decisions.
He has also been deeply involved in geothermal reservoir simulation and forecasting, contributing to reservoir models for geothermal fields such as Takigami (Japan), Sabalan (Iran), Olkaria (Kenya), and Kotamobagu (Indonesia). Their research has helped bridge subsurface and surface systems in geothermal operations, supporting more effective resource management.
He held academic and research positions at Kyushu University from 2008 to 2014, starting as a PhD researcher, followed by a prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and later as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering. From 2014 to 2017, he served as an Associate Professor at Akita University. He then returned to Kyushu University from 2017 to 2024 as an Associate Professor in both the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation and the Faculty of Engineering. Additionally, from 2016 to 2024, he served as a Lecturer at the JICA Geothermal Training Program, where he delivered lectures to geothermal professionals from developing countries and supervised their projects. Throughout these roles, he was actively involved in international collaborations focused on sustainable geothermal development at the international level.