Florian Wellmann - Research Group And Department Lead at Fraunhofer IEG

Florian Wellmann

Research Group And Department Lead at Fraunhofer IEG

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Florian Wellmann is a geoscientist and research leader with 14+ years of experience combining geological modelling, numerical simulation and field work to tackle geothermal, hydrogeological and geophysical problems. As Research Group and Department Lead at Fraunhofer IEG and a professor at RWTH Aachen, he directs exploration and reservoir simulation efforts while maintaining an active research agenda on sensitivity and stability of convective flow in geothermal systems. Fluent in multiple programming languages, he contributes to open-source tools like GemPy, improving 3D structural modeling, visualization and stochastic uncertainty workflows. His background spans polar geophysics to basin-scale geothermal studies, giving him rare hands-on experience from Antarctic instrument programming to large-scale basin simulations in Australia. He is known for integrating geological intuition with automated workflows and uncertainty quantification to produce robust, reproducible subsurface models.

14 years of coding experience

PhD, Geoscience, PhD, Geoscience at The University of Western Australia

School, Earth and Environment, School, Earth and Environment at Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence

Diplom, Geology, Diplom, Geology at University of Tübingen

Diplomarbeit, Geophysik, Diplomarbeit, Geophysik at ETH Zürich

Github Skills (6)

python10

numpy10

matplotlib10

jupyter-notebook9

bayesian8

modeling8

Programming languages (2)

Jupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

gempy-project/gempy

Sep 2017 - Jun 2021

GemPy is an open-source, Python-based 3-D structural geological modeling software, which allows the implicit (i.e. automatic) creation of complex geological models from interface and orientation data. It also offers support for stochastic modeling to address parameter and model uncertainties.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:3 reviews, 65 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 10 months

Contributions summary:Florian's commits demonstrate contributions to the open-source 3-D structural geological modeling software, GemPy. They focused on refactoring and adjusting the existing code base to improve the functionality of the integration for the software. Additionally, the user worked on adding example notebooks with the visualization of Diamond-Square algorithm to gempy/utils to generate random topography generation. Further, the user implemented and improved on the visualization of point selections on multiple hierarchies within the same module.

pythontheanouncertainty-analysisorientationgeological

cgre-aachen/teaching

Dec 2017 - Apr 2021

Material related to teaching of own courses

Contributions:50 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months

materialteachingmaterial-design

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