Elected: 2020
Discipline: Engineering
Professor Sebastian Geiger
Professor for Sustainable Geoenergy, Deft University Of Technology
Professor Sebastian Geiger was previously the Director of Research for the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University. He received his PhD degree from ETH Zurich and spent time as a visiting researcher at the Australia National University, Imperial College London and Aramco Research Centre in Houston. His research focuses on the development of innovative technologies that enable the sustainable use of subsurface energy to support the transition to a low-carbon energy future. He received the 2017 Alfred Wegener Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers for his pioneering research.