Completed PhD thesis

10/01/2023
 

List of PhD theses completed at RWTH-LEK 1997-2022 (first reviewer Ralf Littke or Jan Schwarzbauer), and selected PhD theses completed in the Mid-90s under co-supervision of Ralf Littke at FZ Jülich

Autor

Jahr

Titel

Qusay Abeed

2012

Mesozoic Petroleum Accumulations of Southern Iraq. A Petroleum System Study.

Mahdi Abu-Ali

2005

Organic Petrology, Maturation, Thermal and Burial History Analysis, and Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Modelling of the Saudi Arabian Paleozoic Petroleum Systems

Yvonne Adriasola Munoz (Senglaub)

2006

The thermal history of the western Lower Saxony Basin, Germany

Mohammed Ahmed

2008

Geodynamic evolution and petroleum system of Abu Gharadig Basin, North Western Desert, Egypt

Nadja Al-Sandouk-Linke

2014

Application of Advanced Pyrolysis for the Analysis of Biogeochemically and Environmentally Significant Macromolecular Organic Materials: Microfossils, Macerals and Drilling Fluid Additives

Alexandra Amann (Hildenbrand)

2003

Fluid Transport Processes in Mudstone

Sebastian Amberg

2022

Ice loading and its effects on sedimentary basins and the carbon cycle

Hendra Amijaya

2005

Paleoenvironmental, paleoecological and thermal metamorphism implications on the organic petrography and organic geochemistry of Tertiary Tanjung Enim coal, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

Alireza Baniasad

2022

Petroleum system analysis in the Persian Gulf: Geochemistry and numerical basin modeling

Friedemann Baur

2010

Quantification of heat and fluid flow through time by 3D modeling: an example from the Jeanne d'Arc basin, offshore eastern Canada

Andreas Beha

2007

Investigations on the thermal calibration of sedimentary basin models – a case study from the Horn Graben in the Danish North Sea

Abdulmonem Belaid

2009

Petroleum geology of the Murzuq Basin, SW-Libya: geochemical characterization and numerical petroleum systems modelling

Piero Bellanova

2019

Organic geochemical proxies of tsunami deposits

Michael Berger

2016

Environmental Fate of Industrial Organic Pollutants in a Riverine System- A GC/MS-based Case Study of the Mulde River

Ina Blumenstein

2004

Risk assessment of biodegradation in numerical basin modelling

Johannes Böcker

2015

Petroleum system and thermal history of the Upper Rhine Graben - Implications from organic geochemical analyses, oil-source rock correlations and numerical modelling

Oxana Botalova

2010

Characterization of organic contaminants in industrial wastewaters from direct discharges and their behavior in fluvial systems of North Rhine-Westphalia

Samer BouDaher

2016

Source rock characterization and petroleum generation modelling of the Levant Basin, onshore-offshore Lebanon: An integrated approach

Heike Broichhausen

2003

Mudstone Compaction and Overpressure Calculation in a 3D Petroleum Systems Analysis Tool: Development of the Software and Application to the North Sea

Benjamin Bruns

2014

Unconventional petroleum systems in NW-Germany and the Netherlands: a 3D numerical basin modeling and organic petrography study.

Carsten Büker1

1996

Absenkungs-, Erosions- und Wärmeflussgeschichte des Ruhr-Beckens und des nordöstlichen Rechtsrheinischen Schiefergebirges

Andreas Busch

2005

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Processes associated with CO2- Sequestration and CO2- Enhanced Coaldbed Methane Production from unminable Coal Seams

Bernhard Cramer1

1997

Methan im nördlichen Westsibirischen Becken. Bildung, Lagerstättendynamik und Austausch mit der Atmosphäre.

Volker Dieckmann1

1999

Zur Vorhersage der Erdöl- und Erdgaszusammensetzung durch die Integration von Labor- und Fallstudie

Larissa Dsikowitzky

2002

Umweltgeochemische Charakterisierung der niedermolekularen organischen Fracht des Flusssystems Lippe

Suryendu Dutta2

2006

Biomacromolecules of Fossil Algae, Spores and Zooclasts from Selected Time Windows of Proterozoic to Mesozoic Age as Revealed by Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry – A Biochemical Study -

Diwyitno

2016

Study on the identification, bioaccumulation and exposure assessment of organic contaminants in Jakarta Bay

Michael Erdmann2

1999

Gas Generation from Overmature Upper Jurassic Source Rocks, Northern Viking Graben

Emanuel Eseme

2006

Oil shales: Compaction, Petroleum Generation and Expulsion

Reinhard Fink

2017

Experimental investigation of gas transport and storage processes in the matrix of gas shales

Lothar Friberg

2001

Untersuchung zur Temperatur- und Absenkungsgeschichte sowie zur Bildung und Migration von Methan und molekularem Stickstoff im Nordostdeutschen Becken

Kerstin Frische

2010

Investigations on the environmental fate and contamination potential of DDT-residues in river sediment and its implication for DDA pollution of corresponding surface waters

Mike Frenken

2021

Geochemical signatures of tsunami deposits – application of indicator compounds and methodological progress

Felix Froidl

2021

Kinetics of petroleum generation from terrestrial organic matter: The examples of the lacustrine Berriasian Wealden Shales and Pennsylvanian hard coals, western Germany

Matus Gasparik

2013

Experimental Investigation of Gas Storage Properties of Black Shales

Roland Gaschnitz

2001

Gasgenese und Gasspeicherung im flözführenden Oberkarbon des Ruhr-Beckens

Garri Gaus

2020

Experimental investigation of gas transport and storage processes in the matrix of Carbonaceous Shales

Yves Gensterblum

2013

CBM and CO 2-ECBM related sorption processes in coal

Amin Ghanizadeh

2013

Experimental Study of Fluid Transport Processes in the Matrix System of Organic-rich Shales

Assad Ghazwani

2017

Assessment of Palaeozoic Unconventional Shale Oil and Shale Gas in Northwest Europe: Examples from Scotland and Western Germany based on Geochemical Data and Numerical Basin Modeling

Bandar Ghassal

2017

Source Rock Depositional Processes in Different Marine Settings:Examples from North African Basins

Susan Giffin-Weniger

2009

Adaptation of a model to assess biodegradation risk in a petroleum reservoir by numerical petroleum systems analysis

Anna Grigoriadou

2008

Environmental organic-chemical analyses of water and sediment samples from the industrial area of Kavala City, Nortern Greece

Arne Grobe

2017

Evolution of pressure, temperature and structures in the footwall of large-scale overthrusts

Sebastian Grohmann

2019

Source rock evaluation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: An integrated approach of organic geochemistry, stratigraphic forward modeling and petroleum system modeling

Qiulei Guo

2020

Organic Geochemistry, Petrology and Sorption Capacity of Cenozoic coal from China, Colombia and Indonesia

Lukas Hagemann

2020

Geochronological investigations of anthropogenic contaminants in alluvial sediments

Sabine Heim

2005

Geochronology of Anthropogenic Contaminants in Fluvial Sediments

Michael Hertle

2004

Numerische Simulation der geologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte des permokarbonen Saar-Nahe-Beckens

Zhazha Hu

2020

Multi-scale Characterization of the Petrophysical Properties of Tight Sedimentary Rocks: Examples from an Ordovician Limestone, Canada and Silurian and Ediacaran Shales, China

Kai Jasper

2009

Palynologial, organic-petrographical and organic-geochemical investigations on coals and sediments of the Duckmantian/Ruhr Basin, Germany

Lutz Jedrezjewski1

1995

Organische Geochemie der höheren Unterkreide Nordwestdeutschlands: Ablagerungsmilieu und Zyklik

Johannes Jochum1

1993

Karbonatumverteilung, Mobilisation von Elementen und Migration von Erdöl-Kohlenwasserstoffen im Posidonienschiefer(Hilsmulde, NW-Deutschland) in Abhängigkeit von der Paläotemperaturbeanspruchung durch das Massiv von Vlotho

Harald Karg

1998

Numerische Simulation der thermischen Geschichte, Subsidenz und Erosion des westlichen Rechtsrheinischen Schiefergebirges, des Ruhrbeckens und des Paläozoikums der Niederrheinischen Bucht

Roschni Kalathoor

2016

Quantitative and Enantioselective Analyses Following Enzyme Assisted Processes in Soil: Degradation and Non-extractable Residue Formation of the Fungicide Metalaxyl

Marina Kloppisch2

2008

Organic matter in Late Devonian sediments as an indicator for environmental changes

Olga Konechnaya

2021

Pyrolysis-GC/MS and µ-FTIR analyses on natural polymers and synthetic plastics in environmental particulate matter

Alexander Kronimus

2006

Application of Organic Geochemical Methodologies on Environmental Analytical Problems

Sebastian Kucher

2018

Environmental fate of DDT-related compounds in aquatic systems

Klaus Leischner1

1994

Kalibration simulierter Temperaturgeschichten von Sedimentgesteinen

Xiaoxiang Li

2017

Investigation on molecular hydrogen and methane liberation from source rocks in pyrolysis experiments

Andreas Lückge

1997

Ablagerung und Frühdiagenese organischen Materials in marinen Hochproduktivitätsgebieten

Rüdiger Lutz

2001

Numerische Simulation der Kohlenwasserstoffgenese an der Subduktionszone vor Costa-Rica

Arndt Marzilger

2005

Das Ausgasungsverhalten von Steinkohlenbergwerken unmittelbar nach Stilllegung am Beispiel des Bergwerks Westfalen

Alexander Merkel

2016

Experimental investigation of competitive gas and water sorption in organic matter-rich marine, lacustrine and terrestrial sedimentary rocks of different thermal maturity

Daniel Mohnhoff (Rippen)

2015

Oil and gas shales of Northern Germany: Implications from organic geochemical analyses, petrophysical measurements and 3D numerical basin modelling

Susanne Nelskamp

2011

Structural evolution, temperature and maturity of sedimentary rocks in the Netherlands: results of combined structural and thermal 2D modeling

Martin Neumaier

2015

Structural Restoration and Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling: Case Studies from the Monagas Fold and Thrust Belt, Venezuela and the Moroccan Atlantic Margin

Gregor Neunzert

1998

Simulation der Beckensubsidenz, der Temperaturgeschichte, der Reifung organischen Materials, und der Genese, Migration und Akkumulation von Methan und Stickstoff in Nordwestdeutschland auf Basis seismischer Interpretatiionen

Steffen Nolte

2021

Experimental Investigation of Gas Transport and Storage Processes in Tight Porous Media

Stefan Petmecky

1998

Numerische Simulation der Entwicklungsgeschichte des zentralen Niedersächsischen Beckens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erdgaslagerstätten-Bildung

Dirk Prinz

2004

Die Porenstruktur von Kohlen

Jinqi Qiao

2021

Non-marine source rocks of petroleum and microbial gas in the Ordos and Qaidam basins, mid-west China

Patrick Riefer

2011

Organic-geochemical investigations on the mode of incorporation of a defined nonyl phenol isomer and the herbicideMCPA in soil-derived organo-clay complexes

Victoria Sachse

2011

Petroleum source rocks of western and central Africa: the examples of the marine Tarfaya Basin, Morocco and the continental Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of Congo

Demetrio Santamaria2

2000

Organic Geochemistry of Tithonian Source Rocks and Associated Oils from the Sonda de Campeche, Mexico

Regina Schäfer

2004

Untersuchung der rohstofflichen Eigenschaften der Kokskohlen zur Vorhersage und Beeinflussung der Koksqualität

Stefan Schlömer

1998

Abdichtungseigenschaften pelitischer Gesteine - Experimentelle Charakterisierung und geologische Relevanz

Sabine Schmidt

2004

The Petroleum Potential of the Passive Continental Margin of South-Western Africa - A Basin Modelling Study

Sandro Schmidt

2007

Harmonisierung der Reserven- und Ressourcen-Einschätzung von Hartkohlen in Europa und Russland

Johannes Schoenherr

2007

The Evolution of Halite, Soild Bitumen and Carbonate in the Petroleum System of the South Oman Salt Basin

Gregor Scholtysik

2021

Geochemical focusing of manganese and iron in lakes and its impact on vivianite occurrence

Torge Schümann

2003

The hydrocarbon potential of the Deep Offshore along the Argentine Volcanic rifted margin- a numerical simulation

Jinli Song

2015

Shale oil potential and depositional environment of the Lower Toarcian Posidonia Shale in NW Europe

Alexander Stock

2017

Unconventional oil and gas potential of the Toarcian Posidonia Shale Formation in the crossjunction of Lower Saxony Basin, Pompeckj Block and Gifhorn Trough, Northern Germany: Implications from Organic Petrography, Geochemistry and 3D Numerical Basin Modelling

Thomas Thielemann

2000

Der Methanhaushalt über kohleführenden Sedimentbecken: Das Ruhrbecken und die Niederrheinische Bucht

Robert Tscherny

1999

Sedimentologische Untersuchungen und numerische Simulationen zur thermischen Entwicklung des westhellenischen Flysches östlich von Ioannina (Epirus/NW Griechenland)

Anna Uffmann

2013

Paleozoic petroleum systems of northern Germany and adjacent areas: A 3D modeling study

Herbert Volk2

2000

Source Rocks, Bitumens and Petroleum Inclusions from the Prague Basin (Barrandian, Czech Republic) - Constrains for Petroleum Generation and Migration from Petrology, Organic Geochemistry and Basin Modelling

Philipp Weniger

2012

Thermal and microbial gas generation, accumulation and dissipation in coal basins

Ann-Kathrin Wluka

2017

Screening analyses and selective quantitation of organic pollutants in various matrices

Xiaomin Xie

2018

Petrography and petrophysics of an Eocene liquid hydrocarbon-rich lacustrine shale oil system in the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

Noureddine Yahi

1999

Petroleum Generation and Migration in the Berkine (Ghadames) Basin, Eastern Algeria: An Organic Geochemical and Basin Modelling Study

Qian Zhang

2020

Petroleum geochemistry and petrophysics of oil and gas shales from south China and northwest Germany

Zibin Zhao

2022

Geochemical characteristics of lacustrine sediments: The Miocene Nördlinger Ries crater lake, Germany and the Cretaceous Songliao Basin, northern China

Yongsheng Zhou

1998

Reconstruction of Burial and Thermal History, Oil Generation and Migration in the Songliao Basin, Northeastern China

Xiaojing Zhu

2020

Behaviors and fate of nonextractable anthropogenic organohalogens in aquatic and terrestrial environments : formation mechanisms and remobilization potential

Laura Zieger

2020

The Pennsylvanian of the Ruhr Basin, Germany: Peat deposition and characterization of dispersed kerogen, vitrinite, and coal at different levels of maturation

1 Co-supervised and initiated at FZ Jülich by Ralf Littke, cooperation with Profs. Welte, Leythaeuser, Rullkötter, Friedrich, Stöckhert, Mattheß

2 RWTH-LEK dissertation mainly conducted at FZ Jülich in co-operation with Profs. Horsfield, Wilkes, Dr. Mann