James A. SORENSEN is the Director of Subsurface R&D at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), where he is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team focused on a wide range of subsurface topics, including the geological storage of CO₂. As a Task Leader for the Plains CO₂ Reduction (PCOR) Partnership Program, he was a principal investigator for regional characterization and field demonstration activities focused on CO₂ storage, including field-based projects in North Dakota, Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia.  Mr. Sorensen holds a bachelor of science degree in Geology and a master of engineering degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of North Dakota.

Cato HARDY has over 15 years of Reservoir Engineering experience in the oil and gas industry from the Norwegian Continental Shelf. He has vast operational and projects experience from E&P companies like Statoil, Equinor, DEA, Wintershall DEA, and Sval Energi. But in December 2023, he decided to switch things up and dive into Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) with the Trudvang CCS project, whereas Sval is the Operator.

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Anneke KLEINPENNING is a senior development manager at Shell, and currently the development manager for the Shell Launch store part of Aramis, and the Shell representative in the Aramis Technical Committee. After a msc degree in physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands she started her career as a reservoir engineer in Shell. She has filled different roles in exploration and development in Shell operating units in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Oman. Her experience ranges from operational well planning,  well and reservoir management to development planning of complex oil fields (sour oil, heavy oil, gas flooding, polymer injection). The last ten years Anneke is holding frontend development management roles in Development, New Business and more recently in the very exciting and fast moving CCS business. Her international experience in the oil and gas industry spans over 20 years.

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Philip RINGROSE is a Professor in Energy Transition Geoscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and previously worked at Equinor as a Specialist in reservoir geoscience. He holds a degree in geology from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in seismicity and tectonics from University of Strathclyde in Scotland.  He has been engaged with many CCS project developments over the last 18 years and is a leader in the Centre for Geophysical Forecasting based at NTNU. He has published widely on reservoir geoscience and flow in rock media including textbooks on Reservoir Model Design and How to Store CO₂ underground. His research interests include geology, petrophysics, multiphase flow and geophysical monitoring. In 2018 he was appointed as Honorary Professor (Sustainable Geoenergy) at the University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, UK.

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SIDSEL LINDSØ is a structural geologist and the founder and CEO of the consultancy firm ExploCrowd who specialises in scientific aspects of the subsurface.
ExploCrowd is a team of more than 20 scientists who has worked in high detail with commercial aspects of geological CO₂ storage since 2020.  Having access to seismic data and well data in Norway and Denmark has enabled the cross disciplinary team to innovate and create tools for efficient screening of large areas. Sidsel and the team have supported clients in screening and maturing multiple CO₂ storage sites in Norway and Denmark, and have contributed to successful CCS license applications.
 
Sidsel has a MSc in structural geology from University of Copenhagen.

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Ceri VINCENT is President of CO₂GeoNet, the European Network of Excellence on geological storage of CO₂. Ceri has worked at the British Geological Survey (BGS) on CO₂ storage projects for over 23 years. She is science lead for the UK Energy Research Accelerator GeoEnergy Test Bed, a field laboratory designed to advance understanding of processes and impacts in the shallow subsurface in order to refine monitoring techniques and technologies for CO₂ storage sites. Ceri also led workpackage on infrastructure design and costing for the UKRI Scoping Study for a UK underground CO₂ storage research laboratory.

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Anca PETRE is a policy professional in the energy field, holding a degree in communication sciences, followed by legal studies and focused courses on gas markets regulation. With previous experience in providing strategic advice in regulatory and permitting matters to prospective CO₂ storage operators, Anca offers valuable insights into the practical aspects of CCS projects. As a Policy Officer at the European Commission, her work involves shaping the CCS policy framework, contributing to the development of the investment atlas of CO₂ storage sites, and supporting Member States and operators in the permitting of CO₂ storage sites.

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Chunto TSO received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Texas A&M University, TX, USA, in 1993. Dr. TSO has been a research fellow in the Research Division I of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER) since 1994. Currently he is Vice President of TIER. Dr. TSO's research interests include industrial economics, science and technology policy, international business management, new energy industry, and traffic management.
Since 2022 Dr. TSO has also served as the Chairman of the Taiwan-US Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Industries Promotion Alliance (TUCA) since 2022. TUCA's mission is accelerating the development of CCUS technology in Taiwan and promoting Taiwan’s 2050 net-zero transformation.

As an adviser with Arup, JEMIMA BRUIN-BLAND  works on securing investment in and the construction and integration of our emerging decarbonised energy system. This includes emerging infrastructure development, supply and demand flows, integration of value chains, policy and regulation and securing associated economic opportunities for communities and regions.
Jemima has previously worked as a commercial lead in Shell's innovative LNG production and trading businesses, supported the development of the contract for difference mechanism in UK law in 2013 and was part of 'round 2' of Carbon Capture and Storage hub development within the UK's Coalition government. Since then, Jemima has spent a decade advising infrastructure owners and developers around the world including National Grid Plc , Cadent, HS2, UKPN, Southern Water, Sydney Water, Endeavour Energy, Ausgrid, and National Grid Ventures. She most recently managed Shell UK's portfolio of Energy Transition investments including CCS, onshore wind and H₂ production projects.
Jemima’s focus now is on the delivery of 'full chain' Carbon Capture and Storage as Global Lead, CCUS for Arup. This includes developing safe and investable proposals industrial CO₂ capture, transport and storage, CCUS-enabled hydrogen production and the development of a supply chain for sustainable materials including CCS-enabled concrete. Working on policy and feasibility, FEED and into project execution, Jemima has a truly global view of the essential emerging infrastructure system which is CCS.

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Aymeric REYMOND is leading the development of CO₂ transport and storage value chain for emitters in Airfix’s portfolio. Aymeric has more than six years of climate finance experience and has been dedicated to the BECCS sector for two years, leading to the establishment of Airfix as a dedicated subsidiary of South Pole in this space. He has also conducted a range of advisory projects for the private sector, development banks and non-governmental organisations globally, focusing on mobilising climate finance. Aymeric holds an MSc in Financial Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

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Jasper DE REUS is project manager of the CO2-Plume Geothermal consortium at ETH Zurich. Following his MSc in aerospace engineering at the TU Delft, he previously worked as wireline field engineer at SLB and as reservoir engineer at Shell, focussing on technology field piloting and new business development. His research interest lies in leveraging the benefits of CO₂ as a geothermal working fluid to accelerate the energy transition.

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Rowena STEAD holds a Master in Geology and Basin Dynamics and works within BRGM (the French Geological Survey) on CO2 geological storage projects and specifically the CO2GeoNet Network of Excellence. She brings her skills in project management, communication and information dissemination. 

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Barbara MERSON graduated in Environmental Science, with marine specialisation, and she also holds a Master's Degree in Management of Universities and Research.
She has worked in Italy and abroad in both public and private projects, coordinating Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports.
Since 2010 she has been working at OGS, the Italian Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, within the technical-scientific organisation of International projects and Italian initiatives in the field of CCS, supporting also the CO₂GeoNet Secretariat based in OGS.
For seven years she was seconded to the Research Promotion and International Cooperation Office, supporting the OGS governance for the drafting of the strategic plans of the institution, for the promotion and enhancement of OGS research at Italian and international level managing relations with the European Commission and with the Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research.
Since 2020 she is the Secretary General of the CO₂GeoNet Association.

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Willem-Jan PLUG is a CO₂ Transport and Storage specialist and is since May 2023 the Technical Manager for the Porthos Project. In various roles he has contributed to the development of CCS. After his PhD in Petroleum Engineering at the TU Delft, looking at capillary pressure phenomena for CO₂ storage, he started his career as reservoir engineer in 2007. In 2011 he joined TAQA and was involved in the ROAD project, resulting in the first CO₂ storage permit in the Netherlands. In May 2021 he started as CCS Subsurface Manager at EBN. On behalf of EBN, Willem-Jan is now working for the Porthos project.

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Carsten M. NIELSEN has 25+ years of experience as a reservoir engineer; working with reservoir evaluation, field development, reserve estimation, subsurface modelling, CCS and reservoir simulation, both as an expert/regulator at the Danish Energy Agency and as a researcher/advisor at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). He holds a M.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.
Carsten has been using his expertise with hydrocarbon fields in the Danish, Norwegian and British sectors of the North Sea, modelling of CO₂ and natural gas storage and modelling geothermal energy production.

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Joining Japan CCS in 2010, Mr. Yoshihiro SAWADA has served as Executive Managing Director and President of the Plant Division between 2015 and 2017, and Corporate Adviser and General Manager of the International Affairs Dept. since 2017.
Between 2004 and 2009, he was with Japan Continental Shelf Survey Corp., with the mission to extend the outer limits of the continental shelf of Japan, serving as president between 2007 and 2009.
Prior to this, he was involved in research, engineering and construction of offshore structures and pipelines at Nippon Steel Corp., which he joined in 1977.

Qi LI holds a B.Sc.in Earth Sciences (and a minor in Computer Science) from Nanjing University, China (1995), and in 1998 he received an M.Sc. in hydrogeology and engineering geology from the same University. In 2004, he received a Ph.D. in information system science with a focus on applied geosciences from Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan. Before joining the faculty of Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics (IRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, he was a staff of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, from 2005 to 2010.
Prof. Li is now a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering at IRSM, Also a Senior Research Scientist at the Research Center of Energy & Waste Underground Storage at IRSM, and the Leader of the carbon neutralization research group. Dr. Li’s current research fields in CO₂ utilization and storage (CCUS), and applied energy geoscience starting from 2002 mainly include performance assessment of disposal reservoirs, multiphase flow, coupled rock physical processes, energy-environment-water resources nexus, and risk monitoring and assessment. The focus of Prof. Li’s research is understanding and using laboratory and numerical tools to design novel subsurface disposal processes and site monitoring systems on different temporal and spatial scales. His research crosses multiple fields, including hydrogeology, computational geosciences, rock physics, and data science.

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Dóra CSERESZNYÉS is working at the Geological Survey, Supervisory Authority for Regulatory Affairs (SARA) in Budapest, Hungary. The main directions of her research are the CO₂ and H₂ subsurface storage and the investigation of natural CO₂ occurrences in Hungary. She simulates the water-rock-CO₂ interactions with geochemical models (PHREEQC, TOUGHREACT) to better understand the mechanism and timeline of mineral storage of CO₂. She specialized in petrology, mineralogy, isotope geochemistry and geochemical modeling during her PhD studies at the Eötvös Loránd University.

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Paula CANTELI is a Dr. mining engineer specialised in geological exploration and probabilistic economic evaluation for geological storage of CO2. She joined Maersk Oil in Denmark, Kazakhstan and Norway in the Engineering Exploration Team, and OMV- Petrom as production technologist. In 2016 she came back to the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME) in Madrid and currently she is responsible of IGME’s participation in STRATEGY CCUS, PilotSTRATEGY, Hystories, and GeoEnergy WP of GSEU (Geological Survey for Europe), all projects funded by EC in the framework of H2020 program. She is a member of the CO2GeoNet Executive Committee since 2019.

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Mario ANSELMI earned his MS degree in Geological Sciences and PhD in Earth Sciences at University of Rome "La Sapienza." Since 2018 he is a permanent Researcher at INGV. His focuses are earthquakes’ location, seismic tomography, designing and management of seismic networks.
Since 2014 he has been involved in feasibility studies for CCS and has collaborative experiences with some CCS European stakeholders. Currently is a project manager of the geophysical monitoring of RAVENNA-HUB in the offshore Adriatic sea (Italy). He authored more than 10 papers on international, peer-reviewed journals.

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Aslaug ESKELAND JANSSEN has a master’s degree in petroleum engineering and 30 years of work experience. She has contributed to operation of complex offshore oil and gas fields in a major energy company, as well as the last 15 years on behalf of the Norwegian Authorities. Along with the need for emission reductions, she has as part of the CCS-team in Norwegian Offshore Directorate, followed the full-scale CCS-project Northern Lights, from studies to implementation. She is involved in the licensing award of area for CO₂-storage on the Norwegian continental shelf, as well as development and implementation of the legal framework for the sector. Aslaug has also contributed to transfer of the Norwegian experience to governmental institutions in emerging countries through bilateral cooperation. This has given her a broader understanding of resource management in different contexts.

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Roman BERENBLYUM holds a PhD (2004) from Danish Technical University. Since 2006 Roman has worked in NORCE focusing on carbon dioxide utilisation and storage, geothermal energy, hydrogen, fluid behavior and reservoir simulation related to IOR/EOR. Roman is currently serving as a member of the CO2GeoNet Executive Committee. Roman has been involved in and coordinated multidisciplinary research and industry-oriented projects in Norway, Middle East, Latin America and Russia.

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Ceri VINCENT is President of CO₂GeoNet, the European Network of Excellence on geological storage of CO₂. Ceri has worked at the British Geological Survey (BGS) on CO₂ storage projects for over 23 years. She is science lead for the UK Energy Research Accelerator GeoEnergy Test Bed, a field laboratory designed to advance understanding of processes and impacts in the shallow subsurface in order to refine monitoring techniques and technologies for CO₂ storage sites. Ceri also led workpackage on infrastructure design and costing for the UKRI Scoping Study for a UK underground CO₂ storage research laboratory.
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ARVID NØTTVEIT currently holds the position as Strategic advisor in NORCE. He is a geologist (PhD) by training. From 2005-2018, he was the CEO of Christian Michelsen Research AS, which is now part of NORCE. Before that, he spent more than 20 years in oil & gas industry research, exploration, field development and operations in Norwegian offshore as well as internationally.
 
Nøttveit has been the manager of the Norwegian FME centre SUCCESS on CO₂ storage from 2010-2018. He has also been the project manager of the ACT II DigiMon project on CO₂ monitoring (2019-2022) and is currently providing management support to the CETP RamonCO project (2023-2026) on risk-based assessment of CO₂ monitoring. Within CCS his main interests and expertise relates to storage capacity, reservoir characterization and monitoring. He has promoted the need for large-scale storage of CO₂ as a means to accelerate deployment of CCS on a global scale.
 
He holds the position as chair of the board in the Norwegian CLIMIT research programme.

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Rick CHALATURNYK is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering  (University of Alberta, Canada) and a NSERC/Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Geomechanics.  He co-founded PROMORE Engineering (reservoir surveillance) and was Exec VP of Opsens Solutions, a company providing fiber-optic and other monitoring solutions for SAGD and CO₂ storage. He has established a cluster of experimental facilities: geomechanical (GeoREF), geotechnical centrifuges (GeoCERF), 3D printers for geological media (GeoPRINT) and geomechanical reservoir modelling (GeoRMT). Rick is member of the Scientific and Engineering Research Committee for the Aquistore project and was involved in the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO₂ storage project.

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Petr JIRMAN works as Researcher geologist at Czech Geological Survey, his major field of interest covers monitoring, modelling, CCS and geo-energy. Petr participates in CO2-SPICER project as leader of Work package 7 – Monitoring.

Michael JORDAN is a geophysicist with a doctoral degree in Geophysics from the University of Göttingen, Germany. His work as a senior research scientist at SINTEF, Norway, has been mostly related to monitoring of CO₂ storage. He has over 20 years of experience in development and application of methods for imaging the subsurface and combining different data types. He has a special interest in exploiting the information contained geophysical data and has been involved in establishing and operating SINTEF’s Svelvik CO₂ Field Lab.

Gianluca VALENSISE received a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Rome in 1987. He joined Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING) in 1983, and became Senior Scientist in 1997. His activities include:

- development of strategies for the quantification of the earthquake potential of large faults;

- implementation of new research strategies in Earthquake Geology and Historical Seismology;

- implementation of the Italian Database of Individual Seismic Sources (1997) and of the European Database of Seismogenic Faults (2013);

- participation in the compilation of four generations of seismic hazard maps for Italy.

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