49 articles
September 2025
Geothermal energy has great potential, but drilling is expensive. That is why intensive research is being conducted into affordable drilling technologies. One such method is Directional Steel Shot Dri
Read more →August 2025
Two PhD Opportunities in Energy and Planetary Sciences: Natural Hydrogen and Supercritical CO₂ Systems Read more
Read more →
August 2025
Geophysics at ETH Zurich 2025 -> Nr. 1 worldwide Geology at ETH Zurich 2025 -> Nr. 1 worldwide Read more – link to QS Top Universities Webpage – EARTH SCIENCES Read more – link to QS Top Universiti
Read more →
November 2024
Article in the Newsletter of the Werner Siemens-Stiftung of November 2024
Read more →
May 2024
On May 6, 2024, Mohamed Ezzat has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Plasma-Pulse Geo-Drilling Technology“.
Read more →
April 2024
Geophysics at ETH Zurich 2024 -> Nr. 1 worldwide Geology at ETH Zurich 2024 -> Nr. 1 worldwide Read more – link to QS Top Universities Webpage – EARTH SCIENCES Read more – link to QS Top Universiti
Read more →
January 2024
A GEG paper receives the Rock Mechanics Bulletin Excellent Paper 2022-2023 Award. The paper is: Li, Z., X. Ma, X.-Z. Kong, M.O. Saar, and D. Vogler, Permeability evolution during pressure-controlled
Read more →
April 2023
AND Geophysics at ETH Zurich 2023 -> Nr. 1 worldwide AND Geology at ETH Zurich 2023 -> Nr. 1 worldwide Read more – link to QS Top Universities Webpage – EARTH SCIENCES Read more – link to QS Top Un
Read more →
March 2023
On March 3, 2023, Batmagnai Erdenechimeg has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Magnetotelluric exploration of intermediate temperature geothermal systems and mineral resources in centra
Read more →
January 2023
December 2022, RWTH Aachen Dr. Paromita Deb has been given the Dr. Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Award for the best doctoral thesis in the Division of Earth Sciences and Geography. Read more – link to RWTH A
Read more →
October 2022
On October 28, 2022, Isamu Naets has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “A pore scale investigation of fluid flow heterogeneity and solute transport in rough-walled fractures”.
Read more →
October 2022
The biggest geothermal event in Europe has ended. More than 1300 participants attended EGC2022. The next EGC2025 will be held in Zurich, from 6 to 10 October 2025, organized by Geothermie Schweiz and
Read more →
September 2022
On September 16th, 2022, Po-Wei Huang has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Reactive transport modeling at the pore scale and upscaling to the Darcy scale”.
Read more →
June 2022
AND Geophysics at ETH Zurich 2022 -> Nr. 1 worldwide AND Geology at ETH Zurich 2022 -> Nr. 1 worldwide Read more – link to QS Top Universities Webpage – EARTH SCIENCES Read more – link to QS Top Un
Read more →
June 2022
Paromita Deb has been awarded 1st prize by the Geoverbund ABC/J Young Academics Award 2022 for her doctoral dissertation. Read more – Geoverbund ABC/J Webpage
Read more →
May 2022
We are pleased to announce the formation of a new group, to conduct research into the safe, effective and efficient exploration and operation of geothermal energy systems. Read more – Energi Simulatio
Read more →
May 2022
On Friday, April 29th, Hoda Javanmard has successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled: “Hydromechanical processes in natural and 3D printed fractures”
Read more →April 2022
For his ongoing Master Thesis Project, “Velocity Quantification of Two Phase Drainage and Imbibition Processes in Rough Wall Fractures”, Dario Schwendener was awarded with the SASEG student grant of 1
Read more →
March 2022
3 GEG PhD students together with PhD students from RWTH Aachen achieved 2nd Place in the 2021 SPE GeoHackathon. As part of the Hackathon, they were tasked with creating a field development plan for a
Read more →
March 2022
We are pleased to announce a workshop on the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE, http://mooseframework.org) to be given by the MOOSE development team at ETH Zurich and organize
Read more →
July 2021
The GEG XRCT system of ETH Zurich provides resources and services in Xray-CT imaging as well as direct access to state-of-the-art CT scanner, dedicated software, and in-situ imaging equipment.
Read more →
May 2021
Dr. Edoardo Rossi received the ETH Medal (Auszeichnung von Doktorarbeit) for his doctoral thesis: “Combined Thermo-Mechanical Drilling Technology to Enhance Access to Deep Geo-Resources”.Edoardo R
Read more →
May 2021
We want to congratulate Dr. Maren Brehme (TU Delft) with the granted ITN EASYGO ‘Efficiency & Safety in Geothermal Operations’ which creates 13 PhD positions within our network. A prestigious 3.4M€ fu
Read more →
December 2020
Dec. 2020: GEG paper receives a 2019 Water Resources Research Journal Editor’s Choice Award, given to 1% of papers in a given year (here 2019). The paper is:
Read more →
November 2020
On October 30th, 2020, Mehrdad Ahkami has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Experimental and numerical study of fluid flow, solute transport, and mineral precipitation in fractured poro
Read more →
September 2020
On Tuesday, September 8th, Marina Grimm Lima has successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled: “Evolution of permeability of natural fractures due to THMC processes in the context of CO2-based reser
Read more →
August 2020
Franco Aubert and Friedemann Samrock just completed 137km of airborne geomagnetic survey over the lavafields near Þorbjörn volcano in Iceland. The study is part of project MAGIC – Multidisciplinary im
Read more →
August 2020
Dr. Xiang-Zhao Kong has achieved permanency status (tenure) in the Geothermal Energy and Geofluids (GEG) group of the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. He has done an outstanding job, which
Read more →
August 2020
New project MIRIGE in Ethiopia to study magmatic rifting and the formation of geothermal resources funded by ETH grant. Read more – link to project website
Read more →
July 2020
On Monday, July 27th, Justin Ezekiel has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Assessment and optimization of geological carbon storage and energy production from deep natural gas reservoir
Read more →
June 2020
ETH Zurich has demonstrated continuous improvement in the QS World University Ranking, from 12th place in 2015 to 6th place in last year’s 2020 ranking.Read more – link to QS TopUniversities WebpageRe
Read more →
March 2020
On Thursday, May 28th, Jin Ma has successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled: “Investigation of mineral reactivity in CO2-bearing solutions: An application to CCUS in geothermal reservoirs”.
Read more →
March 2020
On Thursday, March 26th, Mahmoud Hefny has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Rock physics and heterogeneities characterization controlling fluid flow in reservoir rocks”.
Read more →
March 2020
On Tuesday, March 24th, Philipp Schädle has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: “Flow and transport through fractured rock – numerical approaches to account for fracture heterogeneity”.
Read more →
February 2020
The burning of coal for heating is a major cause of harmful air pollution and massive greenhouse gas emissions in Mongolia’s cities. This photo gallery provides authentic insights into the progress of
Read more →
January 2020
On Tuesday, January 7th, Edoardo Rossi has successfully passed the Doctoral Examination. Edoardo’s PhD thesis title: “Combined Thermo-Mechanical Drilling technology to enhance access to deep geo-resou
Read more →
December 2019
Marthe Faber has been awarded the ‘Prix d’Excelence’ by the Enovo Fondation and its partners, the Association da Vinci and l’ANEIL (National Association of Luxembourg Engineering Students). The prize
Read more →
September 2019
On Monday, September 9th, Anniina Kittilä has successfully passed the Doctoral Examination. Anniina’s PhD thesis title: “Tracer-based characterization of stimulation enhanced pore volume and applicati
Read more →
December 2018
ETH is listed number one among the 200 best academic institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the Nature Index 2018. This index is based on publications in the 82 journals selected as the mos
Read more →
October 2018
Dr. Allan Leal has been awarded an SNF Ambizione grant to develop innovative computational methods for ultra-fast simulations of coupled physical and chemical processes using machine learning and GPU
Read more →
October 2018
Dr. Friedemann Samrock has been awarded an SNF R4D grant to develop a geoscientific framework for geothermal exploration and energy utilization in Mongolia, started on September 1, 2018. Link to Proje
Read more →
March 2018
Earth and marine sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich was ranked the best in the world for the 4th time in a row. The results were published by the QS World University Ranki
Read more →
September 2017
Werner Siemens Foundation visits the Geothermal Energy & Geofluids Group and has a guided tour at the GEG Laboratories. read more on ETH Foundation webpageread more on News of GEG webpage
Read more →
May 2017
Scientists are searching for safer drilling methods: geothermal energy can provide sustainable and clean energy right where we need it – however seismicity may be induced. Scientists at ETH Zurich inv
Read more →
March 2017
This semester the new course ‘Geofluids’, offered by the GEG Group, within the Earth Science Masters Program counts 32 registered students. read more
Read more →
March 2017
ETH Zurich researchers working at NAGRA’s Grimsel rock laboratory have retreated deep inside the mountain. By fracturing solid rock, they are hoping to re-examine the feasibility of geothermal power p
Read more →
March 2016
In 2018, the PhD students from the Geothermal Energy and Geofluids (GEG) Group at ETH Zurich will be hosting the 9th European Geothermal PhD Days. The EGPD 2018 event will take place on March, 14th-16
Read more →
