Katriona Edlmann
Professor in Sustainable Energy
I am the Professor in Sustainable Energy at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh.
I trained as a reservoir geologist and am committed to advancing and transforming understanding of subsurface characterisation and multiphase reactive transport through porous media for the secure and sustainable utilisation of subsurface water resources, energy storage and low-carbon energy generation through state of the art experiments and benchmarking of numerical modelling.
I have developed and lead the Applied Geoscience Laboratory for Sustainable Energy which aims to advance and transform the understanding of subsurface characterisation, containment and multiphase reactive transport flow, through cutting-edge experiments benchmarked against numerical models to create real-world solutions to low carbon energy supply and water resource management responsibly and sustainably.
My original evidence-based research adopts a cross-disciplinary approach which has included international collaborations with applications in a number of diverse fields that have given me a wide-ranging and expanding research portfolio in the areas of subsurface energy storage; carbon capture and storage; unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs; water management; environmental monitoring & mitigation and subsurface risk assessment.