Dr. Olaf Kolditz
professor
Department of Environmental Informatics
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Dr. Olaf Kolditz is a mathematician and civil engineer, Olaf Kolditz heads the Department of Environmental Informatics at the UFZ in Leipzig. He is also Professor of Applied Environmental Systems Analysis at Dresden University of Technology. He brings his expertise to bear on combining environmental and information sciences with applications in hydrology, geotechnologies and energy storage. He is Head of the OpenGeoSys initiative for the development of a scientific open-source software platform. Olaf Kolditz is Editor-in-Chief of the journals "Environmental Earth Sciences" and "Geothermal Energy". He is strongly committed to the further development of the UFZ's HIGRADE Graduate School and to scientific and technical cooperation with research institutions in the People's Republic of China.
Research Interest
Environmental Fluid Mechanics (with applications in Hydrology, Geotechnics, Geothermics, Energy, Computational Mechanics and Software-Engineering, High-Performance-Computing, Environmental Information Systems, Scientific Visualization Hydroinformatics and Hydrosystem Analysis (Graduate Courses at TU Dresden) Environmental Modeling (Introductory and Advanced HIGRADE Courses)
Publications
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Kolditz O, Bauer S, Bilke L et al. (2012): OpenGeoSys: An open source initiative for numerical simulation of THMC pro-cesses in porous media, Environ. Earth Sci., 67(2): 589-599
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Kolditz O, Görke UJ, Shao H, Wang W (2012): Thermo-hydro-mechanical/chemical processes in porous media. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 86, Springer, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-27176-2.
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Kolditz O, Shao H, Wang W, Bauer S (2015): Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking - Closed-Form Solutions. In: Terrestrial Environmental Sciences, Vol. 1, Springer, Hei-delberg, ISBN 978-3-319-11894-9, 330pp.
