Eirik Keilegavlen

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Eirik Keilegavlen studied applied and computational mathematics at the University of Bergen (UoB), where he completed his PhD in 2010. Since 2012, he has been a permanent researcher in the Porous Media Group at the Department of Mathematics at UoB. In 2013–14, he held a position as an Associate Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University.

Keilegavlen’s research interests include mathematical modeling and numerical methods for coupled processes in the subsurface, motivated by applications such as geothermal energy and subsurface carbon storage. His expertise covers spatial discretization methods and solvers for linear and non-linear problems, with particular emphasis on simulations of fractured porous media. He combines this mathematical focus with an interest in applying advanced simulation techniques in other disciplines, and he regularly participates in interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with geologists, seismologists, geochemists, and engineers.

A central part of Keilegavlen’s work is the implementation of simulation technology in open-source scientific software. In 2017, he initiated development of the open-source simulation tool PorePy, tailored for coupled processes in fractured porous media, and he has been its lead developer since then. PorePy has been used extensively in research at UoB and has also been adopted by several research groups worldwide, including the PyGeoN offshoot developed at Politecnico di Milano.

In addition to leading the PorePy developer group, Keilegavlen has long experience as a project manager, heading projects financed by a combination of public and private resources. He also has extensive experience supervising early-career researchers, with a total of 16 PhD students -5 of them as main supervisor - and 4 postdoctoral researchers, two of them as main supervisor. Through his work with PorePy, he is strongly engaged in giving students experience in developing scientific software and using open-source tools.

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