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.

Christian Dye, Cand. Scient. is Research Director for Environmental Technology at IFE and Innovation Director in NCS2030.

Dr. Zachary Paul Alcorn is an interdisciplinary reservoir engineer and geoscientist focused on multiphase fluid flow during CO2 injection processes in subsurface reservoirs. He works at the Department of Physics and Technology at UiB. His role in the Centre is Research Director.