Earth Sciences Division Staff: Stefan Finsterle

Research Interests

Inverse modeling of nonisosthermal multiphase flow systems; fracture and unsaturated zone hydrology; hydrogeophysics; test design and data analysis; optimization; error and uncertainty analysis; geostatistics.

Education

• 1993 Doctorate, Dr. sc. techn., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
• 1988 Masters, Dipl. Kult- Ing. ETH, Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland

Work History

• 2005/2006, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, California
• since 2001, Staff Geological Scientist, (Head Hydrogeology Department February 2006–December 2008) Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
• 1996, Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Sciences, Clemson University, South Carolina       
• 1995, Visiting Scientist, School of Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• 1994 – 2001, Geological Scientist, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
• 1993 – 1994, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
• 1988 – 1993, Research Engineer, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology, and Glaciology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland

Software

Main developer of iTOUGH2 nonisothermal multiphase inverse modeling code

Recognitions

2005, Berkeley Lab Tech Transfer Award

2003, Berkeley Lab Outstanding Performance Award

1993, Medal of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, for an outstanding doctoral dissertation.

1989, Diplompreis des Schweizerischen Kulturingenieur Vereins, for an outstanding master thesis in land surveying.