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Sara Focaccia

Research fellow

Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering

Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

August 2012 – August 2014 Post-Doc researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbona. Short research stay at Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh, collaborating with Prof. Vasily Demyanov

January 2009 – May 2012 PhD in cotutoring between University of Bologna and Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbona. Short research stay at TU Delft, with Prof. Rafid Al-Khoury

October 2006 - October 2008 University of Bologna – Master degree in Environmental Engineering. Final mark: 110/110 cum laude with a dissertation related to the characterization of a polluted site in Paris. Thesis developed at the geostatistical research centre of Ecole des Mines (Fontainebleau – Parigi), in collaboration with Total France.

October 2003 – October 2006 University of Bologna– Bacheklor degree in Environmental Engineering. Final mark: 110/110 cum laude with a dissertation related to subsidence in Emilia Romagna.


PhD DISSERTATION 
Title: Characterization of geothermal reservoirs' parameters by inverse problem resolution and geostatistical simulations
Language: English (thesis and oral defense)
Defense: Bologna, 4th may 2012


WORKING EXPERIENCES

April 2013 – up to now Member of SERENGEO, Innovativ Start Up & Spin-Off of the University of Bologna.

January 2018- July 2019 Professor of Reservoir Engineering at the Master in Petroleum engineering organized by GALP in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh.

March 2015- July 2019 Professor of Reservoir Simulationat the Master in Petroleum engineering organized by GALP in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh.

April 2015- May 2015 Professor of module II of Environmental Geostatistics – Environmental Engineering, University of Bologna.

August 2014-December 2016 Professor of Drilling Engineering, Reservoir Engineering and Natural Gas Engineering at the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN) in Luanda.

March 2014- December 2014 Tutor of Reservoir Simulation at the Master in Petroleum engineering organized by GALP in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh.

LANGUAGES
http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/resources/european-language-levels-cefr
English C2 Portugues C2 French B1 Spanish A2

IT SKILLS

Operative Systems Windows XP - Windows 7, Ubuntu
Microsoft Office Excel, Word, Power Point
Programming languages  Visual Basic, Matlab
Software FEFLOW, GeoMS, Eclipse, ISATIS, Tough2, Raven, tNavigator, SGems

Patent
2012 Focaccia, Tinti. “Sistema geotermico a bassa entalpia e metodo per la sua installazione” GE2012A000042, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna