
Staff
Scientific Staff
Prof. Dr. Joerg Renner
Head of the Working Group
Dr. Victoria Jiménez
PostDoc
Dr. Evangelos Korkolis
PostDoc
Fahim Mumand
PhD student
Zahoor Noori
PhD student
Bhupesh Meher
Guest researcher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Technical Staff and Secretary

Frank Bettenstedt
Laboratory Technician
IB 03/156
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-26198
Sandra Wagner
Secretary
IA 4/69
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-23270
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Former Scientific Staff
Dr. Yan Cheng
PostDoc
Judith Orilski
PhD student
Daniel Reinhoff
PhD student
Dr. Sarah Incel
PostDoc, until 2022
Dr. Marieke Rempe
PostDoc, until 2022
Dr. Dongmei Yu
PhD student and PostDoc, until 2021
Dr. Bernard Adero
PhD student, until 2021
"Experimental investigations of mechanical anisotropy of Freiberg gneiss: implications for hydraulic stimulation"
Dr. Hongwei Yang
PostDoc, until 2021
Dr. Max Kewel
PhD student, until 2020
"Experimental investigations into the hydro-mechanical properties of rocks containing fractures"
Dr. Peter Achtziger
PostDoc, until 2020
Dr. Benedikt Ahrens
PhD student, until 2017
"Experimental analysis of the frequency dependence of elastic and hydraulic properties of fractured rocks"
Dr. Thomas Andolfsson
PhD student, until 2017
"Thermal properties of rocks: A periodic solution of thermal diffusion and its application to the pressure dependency of thermal properties"
Dr. Mariela Hernandez
PhD student, until 2017
"Experimental investigation into the evolution of hydraulic properties of fractured rocks at conditions representative of deep geothermal reservoirs"
Dr. Michael Krause
PhD student, until 2017
"Experimental investigation of propagation mechanisms of stimulation-induced fractures under in-situ conditions"
Dr. Laura Fischer
PhD student, until 2016
"Auswertung von freien Druckschwingungen in Bohrlochversuchen und erzwungenen Druckschwingungen in Laborversuchen zur Bestimmung hydraulischer Eigenschaften"
Dr. Mandy Duda
PhD student/PostDoc until 2014
now in the working group Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics
"An integrated experimental study on elastic and inelastic properties of sandstones and the role of transient pore pressure"
Dr. Tom Mitchell
PostDoc, 11/2009 - 11/2011
Eugen Petkau
PhD student, 03/2007 - 09/2011
Audrey Tison
PhD student, 09/2006 - 12/2010
Dr. Insun Song
2003 - 2008
Dr. Alexis Maineult
10/2005 - 06/2006
Dr. Jan ter Heege
07/2002 - 12/2005
Alexander Graphchikov
2003 & 2005
Dr. Anthony Druiventak
PhD student, until 2013
"Experimental high-stress deformation and annealing of peridotite – simulating coseismic deformation and postseismic creep in the upper mantle of the oceanic lithosphere"