Julien Maes
Assistant Professor,
Environmental Fluid Dynamics,
Heriot-Watt, U. K.
Assistant professor
Institute of GeoEnegy Engineering
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Since Nov 2022
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Leading the GeoChemFoam research group
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Spearheading research collaboration on geothermal energy with University of Tohoku
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Spearheading research collaboration on CCS with Peking university
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Participating in industry funded research on hydrogen production
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Participating in industry funded research on carbon storage in depleted oil and gas fields
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Participating in the teaching of a MSc course (geothermal energy) in subsurface engineering
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Supervisor of PhD and MSc students
Current position and responsabilities
Professional Experience
Heriot-Watt University | Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Institute of GeoEnegy Engineering
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​Research Fellow
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Responsible for the development of GeoChemFoam, the Institute CFD solver for modellling subsurface processes at the pore-scale
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Leading EPSRC funded research on Direct Numerical Simulation for Additive Manufacturing in porous media
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Spearheading the development of a microfluidic laboratory based on 3D printing
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Participating in industry funded research on carbon storage in depleted oil and gas fields
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Participating in the teaching of an undergraduate course (Introduction to soil mechanics) in civil engineering
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Responsible for an internal OpenFoam short course
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Supervisor of PhD and MSc students
Heriot-Watt University | Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
Instiute of Petroleum Engineering​
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Participating in industry founded research in carbonate reservoir characterization at the International Centre for Carbonate Reservoir (ICCR)ï‚·
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Leading the ICCR activities on reactive transport modelling
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Development of an Open Source pore-scale reactive transport code
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Mentoring a PhD student
Skills
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Finite Volumes, Finite differences, Finite Elements
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Direct Numerical Simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations
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Volume-Of-Fluid, Level-Set, Phase Field method
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OpenFOAM, Comsol, CMG
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C/C++, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, HMPP
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Basic windows/Linux tools, Visual Studio, Eclipse, QtCreator, MATLAB, Python, SVN management
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Excellent presentation and writing skills
Languages
French: native
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Interests
Traveling, reading, rugby, rock climbing.
Roxar LTD | Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Internship in reservoir simulation
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Overview of issues of Discontinuous Finite Element Finite Volume Method
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Assessment of Finite Element Continuous Finite Volume method
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Development of a Finite Element Mixed Finite Volume method
Total S.A. | Oct 2008 - Dec 2011
Research Engineer
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Involved in the development of an intern software for oil reservoir flow simulation
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Developing a code with production objectives, in a C++ environment with MPI/OpenMP
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Working in a development team using SVN configuration management tools
Education
Imperial College London | March 2012 - Aug 2015
PhD in Earth Science & Engineering Department
Numerical Methods for the In-Situ Upgrading of Oil Shale and Bitumen
IEcole Polytechnique| Sep 2004 - Sep 2008
Master of Science
Major Mathematics