Montanuniversität Leoben
Holger Ott studied physics in Stuttgart and Berlin, and received his PhD in 2004 from the Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on solid state physics. Before moving to industry in 2006, he was a fellow and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo (Japan, 2002) and the University of Cologne (Germany, 2004-2006).
From 2006 Holger worked as a Senior Scientist and Project Manager at Shell Global Solutions International B.V. in the Netherlands and was among other things scientific lead in the field of geological CO2 storage. During this time, Holger taught as an honorary reader at Imperial College London, and completed his habilitation in applied geosciences at RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2015.
In 2016 Holger was appointed to the Montanuniversität Leoben. He heads the Chair of Reservoir Engineering and is currently Head Department Petroleum Engineering. His primary research interests are in the decarbonization of fossil fuels and geological energy storage.
The bulk of renewable energy production varies in a way that typically does not correspond to time dependent energy consumption. This can lead to an energy surplus or a shortage of the energy supply from renewable energies. To smoothen these supply variations, and enable large scale surplus renewable energy storage, an enormous energy storage capacity is required. Gas as energy carrier, and hence Energy, can be stored in such large amounts in subsurface reservoirs like in depleted gas fields. Especially hydrogen gas is an efficient energy carrier and can be produced from surplus renewable energy.
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