Lecturer and Advisor Geo-Energy
Currently, Jürgen is Lecturer Geo-Energy in the Master Program at the Friedrich-Alexander University (Erlangen, Germany). He also works part-time as Assurance Consultant for the national Nuclear Waste Site Program in Germany and as Energy Transition Advisor. He is a Subsurface Data Management Consultant and Member of the OSDUTM Forum.
Jürgen has a background in carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoceanography. Following a brief career in academia, he worked for 31 years with Shell where he had various functions around the globe like Chief Geologist and Head of Geological Services. Since 2010 his focus was mainly on digital technology development, ultimately leading into the global subsurface data management project called OSDUTM. End of 2022, he retired from Shell.
Jürgen published many scientific papers and books on geoscience, the latest one is called “Digital Geology”. He has a passion for teaching and held many courses at university and within Shell’s graduate training programs. Next to work, he enjoys cycling, jazz and playing chess.
May 29
The amount of digital subsurface and geoscience data has grown exponentially over the past few decades with many companies and government organizations dealing with rapidly growing Petabyte-scales of data. On the other hand, hardware, storage solutions, technical applications and data management utilities have not kept up with these rapid developments. This has resulted in a big gap and hampers the use of AI and data-driven workflows in complex subsurface projects, be it in hydrocarbon exploration and development, geothermal energy projects, CCS, H2-exploration & storage and the search for nuclear waste sites, but also integrated scientific research programs.
