Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Visiting Scholar, Energy Science and Engineering, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University
Visiting Scholar, Géosciences Rennes CNRS – Université de Rennes
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About Me
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Fellow with a PhD in hydraulic engineering on flow and transport in geological media. I am conducting research activity as principal investigator of the MSCA project (3-year global postdoctoral fellowship) GEONEAT at the department of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University, in collaboration with the the University of Bologna, and the Geosciences Rennes. GEONEAT “Complex Fluids in Fractured Geological Media for Enhanced Heat Transfer” (scored 100/100) explores how complex fluids can enhance heat tracer tests to infer reservoir structural parameters by exploiting their non-linear rheology in inverse modeling.
My background
During my PhD, I focused on understanding the combined effects of pore-scale fracture heterogeneity and the shear-thinning rheology of complex fluids, such as biopolymers and foams. These fluids are commonly used in subsurface operations to enhance oil and gas recovery or to carry remedial amendments. I am also interested in the fluid mechanics of free-surface and porous gravity currents, which are of interest in underground carbon storage as well as for aquifer remediation. I have also been actively involved in the research activites of several national and European projects, including WATERGY, GST4Water, BRIGAID, StopUP, and MAR2PROTECT, as a member of the research unit of the University of Bologna.
| Date | Events | Locations | Infos |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/03/2024 | Launch of the MSCA project GEONEAT | Bologna, IT | New Project |
| 01/03/2024 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow | Stanford, CA, US | New Position |
| 13/07/2024 | GRS Flow and Transport in Permeable Media | Newry, ME, US | Oral Presentation |
| 14/07/2024 | GRC Flow and Transport in Permeable Media | Newry, ME, US | Poster |
| 30/09/2024 | International Conference Participation: 25th Computational Methods in Water Resources 2024 | Tucson, AZ, US | Oral Presentation |
| 30/09/2024 | Co-Chair CMWR2024 Session 13 on “Computational Modeling and Model-Data Interaction for Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport” | Tucson, AZ, US | Conference |
| 08/11/2024 | Accepted HPC Project – CINECA ISCRA “Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation”, Class C project – HP10CEAPM0 | Bologna, IT | New Project |
| 21/05/2025 | International Conference Participation: Interpore 2025 | Albuquerque, NM, US | Oral Presentation |
| 28/05/2025 | Invited speaker in a panel of Marie Curie Fellows hosted by the Stanford Grant Writing Academy | Stanford, CA, US | Panelist |
| 31/08/2025 | End of the MSCA outgoing phase (Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford) | Stanford, CA, US | Project Update |
| 01/09/2025 | Beginning of the secondment at Géosciences Rennes | Rennes, FR | Project Update |
Alessandro Lenci 