Research interests: Effective medium modelling of methane bubbles in aquatic muds
Research interests: Induced seismicity
Postdocs
Dr. Andrey Lunkov
Acoustic measurements of effective properties of gassy sediments in Lake Kinneret (hosted jointly with Prof.B.Katsnelson)
Dr. Kirill Gerke
Predicting structure vs. flow and transport property relationships for porous rocks using machine learning
Dr. Abhishek Painuly
Methane (CH4) bubble growth in anisotropic aquatic sediments; Bubble growth in lakes under wave action
Dr. Laxmi Pandey
Dynamic behavior of gas hydrates (hosted jointly with Dr. M.Lazar)
MSc & PhD students
Mariana Belferman (PhD)
Thesis: Influence of surface water level changes on the earthquakes hazard: the Dead Sea during the last two millennia as a case study (supervised jointly with Prof.Z.Ben-Avraham and Prof.A. Agnon)
Zirui Zhang (MSc)
Thesis: Permeability evolution of gas hydrate bearing sediments affected by hydrate formation morphology and precipitation pattern: insights from the pore scale modelling
Xiongjie Zhou (MSc)
Thesis: Mechanical Controls on methane bubble solute exchange within muddy aquatic sediments
Peleg Haruzi (MSc)
Thesis: Evaluation of micro- and macro-scale petrophysical characteristics of Lower Cretaceous Sandstone with flow modelling in μ-CT imaged geometry (supervised jointly with Prof.N.Waldmann)
Ernst Uzhansky (MSc)
Thesis: Acoustic characterization of sediments in lake Kinneret, Israel (supervised jointly with Prof.B.Katsnelson)
Yaniv Alter (MSc)
Thesis: Modeling Sub-seafloor Calcite Precipitation in the Deep Israeli Offshore – a Sensitivity Test (supervised jointly with Prof.Y.Makovsky)
Visiting Scientists
Research interests: Induced Earthquakes