People
Founders
Dr. Naomi Vouillamoz
Naomi holds a PhD in micro-seismology and micro-tectonics. Naomi’s original training is in structural geology, her post-doctoral research focused on environmental geophysics. Naomi has 12+ years of experience in managing applied and multi-disciplinary geo-environmental projects. She was awarded three academic prizes for her PhD thesis and two academic prizes for her diploma thesis.
Founding Partner,
Board Member &
Managing Director
Lucien Vouillamoz
Lucien is a serial-entrepreneur and philanthropist. Engineer in nuclear physics, specialized in heat-exchanger systems and serial inventor whose expertise lies in identifying transformative technologies and making them a commercial success.
Founding Partner,
Board member &
Lead Inventor
Scientific and Industry Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. André Rubbia
Prof. Dr. André Rubbia of experimental physics at ETHZ has pioneered and successfully led the development of deep underground observatories for direct dark matter detection (CERN, Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (Italy), Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain)). In 2015, he was elected as the co-spokesperson in the billion-dollar-scale project DUNE (Fermilab). André brings a sound experience with large-scale high-complexity international projects.
Scientific Advisor Large-scale high-complexity international projects
Guido Nuijten
M.Sc. (tech.) hydro, soil and rock engineering. Project designer and sales manager at AFRY, Guido brings more than 20 years of relevant and versatile experience in rock mechanics in tunneling and underground excavation big infrastructure projects. Since 2017, he is Member of the European Commission –DG- Joint Research Centre’s Expert Group for updating Eurocode 7 on Design of Underground Structures. Guido brings a deep experience for the successful design and implementation of large-scale underground facilities.
Industrial Advisor
Rock engineering
Dr. Daniel Zweidler
Daniel is an International oil and gas industry consultant and entrepreneur with 35 years of experience in opportunity valuation and strategic investment decisions. Daniel brings with him the experience of valuing and assessing the commerciality of multi billion dollars investments in energy related subsurface projects, as well as their optimized execution plans.
Industrial Advisor
Drilling industry
Management
Training
Nanna Vilde Jensen
In February 2020, Seismo Earth received a grant from the Bern Economic Development Agency to support the training and operating costs of a master thesis in Mining Engineering of the Oulu Mining School. Vilde defended her master thesis in early November 2020 and was given the highest grade! Her research work was hosted by AFRY, Finland. It provides key input about the stability of EAPOSYS µ-tunnels excavation at heat depth over time and under pervasive heat extraction.
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