Research areas

• Reservoir geology

• Petrography and petrophysics

• Structural diagenesis

• Critical raw materials, supply chains and strategies

Projects

• Project with exploration company Production Proxy Analysis from Cuttings
• Project with exploration company Petrography, Poro-Perm of Core Material
• ThinkTank Industrial Resource Strategies Resilient raw material supply for Germany - Mining potentials in selected African countries and the role of China
• ThinkTank Industrial Resource Strategies Raw materials for Germany and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
• German-Egyptian collaboration project GeoDes

Responsibilities

• Research, project management, project acquisition

• Supervision of lectures:

  • Earth history

  • Regional Geology

  • Structural Geology

  • Depositional Systems

• Organization and guidance of field trips:

  • Morocco

  • Odenwald

  • Northern Eifel-Ardennes

  • Baden-Wuerttemberg

Experiences

• Curatorial experience such as coordination and digitization of rock and thin section collections
• Exercise organization and course planning
• Several years of tutorial teaching (TU Darmstadt)
  • Magmatic and metamorphic petrology
  • Polarization microscopy
  • Near-surface geothermal energy
  • Exogenous geology

1. Ölmez, J.A., Hilgers, C., 2024, Potentiale aus Afrika für eine resiliente Rohstoffversorgung mit kritischen und strategischen Rohstoffen für Deutschland, at GeoSaxonia, Dresden.
2. Frenzel, M., Fuchs, S., Graupner, T., Hector, S., Ölmez, J.A., 2024, Mineral Exploration, Economic and Ore Deposit Geology, Session at GeoSaxonia, Dresden.
3. Juhasz, D.R., Busch, B., Ölmez, J.A., Cheng, C., Hilgers, C., 2024, Permeability measurements of possible CO2 cap rocks – effect of confining stresses and time, at GeoSaxonia, Dresden.
4. Ölmez, J.A., Busch B., von Dollen, M., Kuroczik, Jan; Hilgers, C., 2024, Reservoir quality of Middle and Upper Triassic carbonate rocks of the Kraichgau area (SW Germany), at GeoSaxonia, Dresden.
5. Ölmez, J.A., Busch B., Möbius R., Dasgupta K., Gauer A. L., Tosoratti F., Hilgers C., 2024, Petrography-based workflow on drill cuttings in combination with borehole gamma ray data, and pXRF on reservoir rocks from the Vienna Basin Flysch Play at DGMK Frühjahrstagung, Celle.
6. Möckel, I.M., Ölmez, J.A., Askkour, F., Ikenne, M., Madi, A., Hilgers, C., 2024, Regional and structural geology of Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian rocks in the Ouansimi copper mine, Western Anti-Atlas of Morocco, at TSK conference Freiburg Brsg.
7. Hilgers, C., Ölmez, J.A., 2023, Geopolitische Rahmenbedingungen und Rohstoffverfügbarkeit, at Kongress BW, Stuttgart.
8. Ölmez, J.A., Hilgers, C., 2023, Metallic raw materials for Germany - Unexploited mining potentials of African developing countries based on the examples Botswana, Morocco, and Zimbabwe, at transforming towards a sustainable society – challenges and solutions Scientific Conference at KIT, Karlsruhe.
9. Ölmez, J.A., Hilgers, C., 2023, The German industrial and economic market is adapting - Impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the supply of metallic raw materials for Germany, at transforming towards a sustainable society – challenges and solutions Scientific Conference at KIT, Karlsruhe.
10. Busch, B., Ölmez, J.A., Hilgers, C., 2023, Diagenetic reservoir quality prediction modelling for CCS, underground gas storage, and geothermal applications, at transforming towards a sustainable society – challenges and solutions Scientific Conference at KIT, Karlsruhe.
11. Cheng, C., Busch, B., von Dollen, M, Ölmez, J.A., Hilgers, C., 2023, Using the subsurface for green energy transition and net-zero emissions: potential and risks, at transforming towards a sustainable society – challenges and solutions Scientific Conference at KIT, Karlsruhe.
12. Cheng C., Busch B., Ölmez, J.A, Hilgers, C., 2023, Understanding micro-processes of reservoir and cap rocks for sustainable and secure geological carbon sequestration, at Workshop Negative Emissions Technologies at KIT (NET@KIT), Karlsruhe.
13. Ölmez, J.A., Busch, B., Hilgers, C., 2023, Reservoir quality and diagenesis of limestones from the Upper Cretaceous (Beckum-Fm.) of the Münsterland Cretaceous Basin, GeoBerlin, Berlin.
14. Ölmez, J.A., Möckel, I.M., Askkour, F., Ikenne, M., Madi, A., Hilgers, C., 2023, Regional geology and structural control of copper-bearing vein formation in the Western Anti-Atlas of Morocco, at GeoBerlin, Berlin.
15. Ölmez, J.A., Busch, B., Hilgers, C., 2023, Diagenetic controls and reservoir quality of tight limestones from the Upper Cretaceous, at DGMK Frühjahrstagung, Celle (Germany).
16. Cheng, C., Busch, B., von Dollen, M., Ölmez, J. A., Hilgers, C., 2023, Visualisation of microbial activities in reservoirs during UHS based on real-rock micromodels, at DGMK Frühjahrstagung, Celle.
17. Ölmez, J.A., Busch, B., Hilgers, C., 2022, Controlling factors of petrophysical parameters in Upper Cretaceous limestones (Beckum-Fm.) of the Münsterland Cretaceous Basin (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). DMG Sektionstreffen Petrologie und Geochemie, Mainz.
18. Ölmez, J.A., Busch, B., Hilgers, C., 2022, Reservoir Quality Heterogeneity in Upper Cretaceous limestones of the Münsterland Basin (Beckum-Fm., Münsterland Basin), at DGMK Frühjahrstagung, Celle.
19. Ölmez, J.A., Busch, B., Hilgers, C., 2021, Reservoir quality in Upper Cretaceous limestones of the Münsterland Basin, German Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and its Student Chapters, online.