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Maria-Katerina
Nikolinakou
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Maria-Katerina
Nikolinakou
is
currently
a
Research
Associate
at
the
Bureau
of
Economic Geology,
Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin.
She works for the AGL and GeoFluids
consortia. Maria is a Civil/Geotechnical Engineer. She received her Science Doctorate on Theoretical Soil Mechanics from MIT in 2008. She holds a M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering from MIT and a Civil Engineering degree from NTUA, Greece. Before joining the Jackson School, she worked for Shell Exploration and Production on Reservoir Geomechanics. Her current research topics include: - Modeling of stresses and pore pressures in sediments bounding salt bodies - Prediction of stresses and pore pressures at the crest of dipping structures - Borehole stability - Poromechanical modeling of basin sediments, including transient pore pressure dissipation - Geomechanical pore-pressure prediction - Numerical modeling in salt tectonics. |
