Petroleum Engineering and Natural Gas Recovery

Klaus Regenauer-Lieb has joined UNSW as Head of School of Petroleum Engineering (2014-2018) through a $4 Million SPF01 grant (2014-2020) in “Excellence for Unconventional Resources Knowledge, Science and Technology" (EUREKA). He has obtained his undergraduate degree in Geophysics in Kiel, Germany and continued with a multidisciplinary international career obtaining first PhD in the Geothermal Institute, Auckland NZ in collaboration with the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department and second PhD (Habilitation) in Geophysics and Geodynamics from the Universities of Mainz, followed by employment in the Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, the Swiss ETH Zurich, CSIRO, a Professor and Chair of Geophysics and Geodynamics in Mainz, Germany and move to Australia in 2006 as a Premier's Fellow at the University of Western Australia and CSIRO and Director of the Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence.