Inga Berre

Position

Professor, Director VISTA Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics

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Short info

Inga Berre's research interests encompass mathematical modeling, partial differential equations, and numerical methods. She has a particular focus on simulation of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in the subsurface, influenced by both natural phenomena and human activities.
Research

Inga Berre is professor at the Department of Mathematics and director of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (CSD) at the University of Bergen. Her main research interests are mathematical modelling, partial differential equations and numerical methods, motivated by simulation of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in subsurface systems and fault reactivation induced by injection and production. She is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant: "Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems" (MaPSI, 2021-2026). In 2023 she was named Argyris Visiting Professor at the SimTech Cluster of Excellence, University of Stuttgart.

Inga Berre has served in multiple elected leadership positions, including the SIAM Council (member, 2022-2024), SIAM GS activity group (chair 2021-2022), SET-Plan Deep Geothermal Implementation Working Group (co-chair, 2019-2021), and the Joint Program Geothermal, European Energy Research Alliance (chair, 2018-2021). She is member of the Scientific Advisory Council of GFZ (2024-2027) and the Advisory Board of SFB1313, University of Stuttgart (2018-). She is Associate Editor for Geothermal Energy, Springer (2020-) og ARC Geophysical Research (2024-), and she is member of the Editorial Boards for Interpore Journal  (2023-) and Advances in Geo-energy Research (AGER).

At the University of Bergen, Inga Berre is a member of The University Board (2021-2025). She has served on multiple boards for the Research Council of Norway, including the Portfolio Board for Natural Science and Technology (2019-2023) and the Division for Science Board (2015-2019). She is elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (2017-).

Teaching

Inga Berre has been responsible for teaching and developing courses at undergraduate and graduate level on calculus, functional analysis, mathematical modelling, and numerical methods and energy. In 2015 she was responsible for the one-week course "Future Energy Landscapes" at the Bergen Summer Research School - The Sustainable Development Goals. 

Inga Berre has graduated 30 master students, 20 as main advisor. She has graduated 13 PhD students:

  • Hau Trung Dang, Simulation of fracture slip and propagation in hydraulic stimulation of geothermal reservoirs, 2023
  • Mohammad Nezhadali, Multilevel assimilation of inverted seismic data, 2023 (co-advisor)
  • Ivar Stefansson, Modelling and simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in fractured porous media, 2021
  • Runar Berge, Numerical methods for coupled processes in fractured porous media, 2019
  • Michael Sargado, Phase-field modeling and simulation of brittle fracture, 2019 (co-advisor)
  • Mats Brun, Upscaling, analysis and iterative numerical solution schemes for thermo-poroelasticity, 2019 (co-advisor)
  • Wietse Boon, Conforming discretizations of mixed-dimensional partial differential equations, 2018 (co-advisor)
  • Eren Uçar, Numerical modeling of shear stimulation in naturally fractured geothermal reservoir, 2018
  • Odd Andersen, Simplified models for numerical simulation of geological CO2 storage, 2016
  • Pål N. Sævik, Upscaling and parameter identification for fractured reservoirs, 2015
  • Carina Bringedal, Mathematical modeling of natural convection and fluid-rock interaction in geothermal systems, 2015
  • Tor Harald Sandve, Multiscale simulation of flow and heat transport in fractured geothermal reservoirs, 2013
  • Sigvat Stensholt, Lattice-Boltzmann modeling of spatial variation in surface tension and wetting effects, 2011 (co-advisor)
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