NCS2030 – management and reporting

The Centre’s director, Professor Alejandro Escalona is currently Head of the Department of Energy Resources at the University of Stavanger (UiS). Prof. Escalona has more than 25 years of both industry and academic experience, where he, for the last 16 years, has been leading industry projects with focus on the subsurface, together with academic and research institutions both nationally and internationally, with participation of more than 30 industry partners, and total budget over 100MNOK.

The Assistant Centre Director is Ying Guo, PhD, Special Advisor and Senior Business developer at NORCE, and since 2019 Director of the National IOR Centre of Norway. She has 30+ years’ experience within both research, software development (DISKOS), and work experience in an oil and gas company as well as extensive research project management experience.

Geir Ersland is research director. He is part of the research group Reservoir Physics – Energy Technology and CO2 Storage (CCUS) at University of Bergen.

IFE's representative in the management group is Kristian Sveen. His experience is from research leadership and project management on large research projects within Multiphase flow and flow assurance.