Postdoc Systems Theory and Control Strategies for Induced Seismicity

This PostDoc position forms part of the Science4Steer project which aims to understand the effects of time-varying pressures, stresses and strains resulting from natural gas production and (re-) injection in the Dutch subsurface as a basis for operational strategies to minimise the hazard of induced seismicity. The results will also be relevant to the final or temporary subsurface storage of other gasses such as CO2 or H2 and for geothermal energy production. In particular, this PostDoc project will address the scope to influence subsurface pressures and stresses, via multi-well injection/production control while taking account of geological and parameter uncertainties. This will involve developing a system-theoretical basis for control of coupled flow and mechanics in faulted porous media through concept/theory development and computational science. Therefore you will use, and contribute to, numerical simulation tools developed by other team members in our project, for example to investigate pressure transients in multi-well configurations at field scale, or simulate physical experiments performed in our project, to develop control strategies for subsurface flow and mechanics.