Team

A highly motivated expert team

Dr. David D. Pollard (Principal scientific adviser)

• Co-founder
• Professor of Structural Geology and Geomechanics at Stanford University, USA
• Principal scientific adviser

Dr. Laurent Maerten (Manager IGEOSS Europe and Consultant)

• Co-founder and with IGEOSS since January 2004
• Ph.D. in Quantitative Structural Geology from Stanford University, USA (1999)
• 2 years as research engineer at the French Petroleum Institute
• Main expertise in structural geology, fracture mechanics and fractured reservoirs
• In charge of managing IGEOSS Europe, testing the software, consulting, training

Dr. Frantz Maerten (R&D Manager and Numerical Code Poly3D)

• Co-founder and with IGEOSS since January 2004
• Ph.D. candidate in Earth Sciences from the University of Montpellier, France
• 4 years as a computer engineer and research associate at Stanford University
• Main expertise in oriented object programming and the numerical codes
• In charge of the development of Poly3D and management of Dynel

Dr. W. Lansing Taylor (Manager IGEOSS US and Consultant)

• With IGEOSS starting January 2009
• Ph.D. in Quantitative Structural Geology from Stanford University, USA (1999)
• 9 years at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston, TX
• Main expertise in structural geology, fracture mechanics and fractured reservoirs
• In charge of managing IGEOSS US, consulting, training

Dr. François Lepage (3D Geological Model Building and Consultant)

• With IGEOSS since September 2004
• Ph.D. in Geosciences from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France (2003)
• 1 year as as a post-doctoral engineer at the French Petroleum Institute
• Main expertise in 2D and 3D model building, meshing and gridding in Geosciences
• In charge of the development of the geological model building and meshing, training

David Desmarest (Development Manager and Software Design)

• With IGEOSS since October 2004
• Engineering degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the University of Montpellier, France (1994)
• 14 years experience in managing software development projects
• Main expertise in oriented object programming and extreme programming
• In charge of managing IGEOSS software development as well as the software design

Michaël Palomas (2D and 3D Scientific Visualization)

• With IGEOSS since January 2006
• Engineering degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Montpellier, France (2005)
• Expertise in software development, graphic user interface design with Qt and computer graphics
• In charge of the 2D and 3D object editing and visualization using OpenGL

Dieter Knoll (software quality testing)

• With IGEOSS since April 2008
• Master degree in Physics from the Ulm university, Germany (1996)
• Expertise in computer sciences and physics
• In charge of the software quality and testing

Jean-Pierre Joonnekindt (Consultant)

• With IGEOSS since August 2008
• Master degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Montpellier, France (1994)
• Main expertise in structural geology and fracture mechanics
• In charge of testing the software, consulting and training

Alexandre Baranov (Software Integration and GUI)

• With IGEOSS since February 2009
• M.S. degree in computer sciences and statistics from the University of Montpellier (2007)
• Expertise in software development and graphic user interface design with Qt
• In charge of the software integration and the graphic user interfaces

Claire Maerten (Administrator IGEOSS )

• With IGEOSS since January 2004
• Expertise in management and accounting
• In charge of most of IGEOSS Europe administration, accounting and logistics

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