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Maria-Katerina Nikolinakou is currently a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on understanding stress and pore pressure in complex geologic systems, including salt systems and thrust belts. She studies the behavior of geologic materials under high stress levels and complex stress paths. She develops applied workflows for pressure prediction in exploration settings. 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. Areas of Expertise: - Geotechnical Engineering - Constitutive modeling - Coupled stress-pore pressure prediction - Dipping structures - Borehole stability - Poromechanical modeling of basin sediments - Transient pore pressure dissipation - Salt Tectonics - Numerical modeling: Abaqus, ELFEN
Honors
1. Invited Early Career Keynote speaker, American Rock Mechanics Geomechanics Symposium (June 2017)
2. Invited Junior Keynote speaker, International Society of Rock Mechanics 2015 Congress (May 2015)
3. 2015 Tinker Family BEG Publication Award (April 2015)
4. Invited speaker, SEG Advanced Modeling (SEAM) Pressure Prediction project (January 2015)
5. Invited speaker, SPE/AAPG/SEG Pore Pressure Workshop, San Antonio, Texas (March 2014)
6. Invited speaker, Houston Geomechanics (February 2014)
7. Invited Keynote Speaker, 3rd International Geoqus Workshop, Potsdam, Germany (August 2012)
8. Member of the first class of the American Rock Mechanics Association Future Leaders (June 2012)
9. Best Technical paper, 3rd Int. Conference on Problematic Soils, Adelaide, Australia (April 2010)
10. MIT Fellowships:
George & Marie Vergottis MIT Fellowship (2005/06, 2006/07), Edmund K. Turner CEE Research
Fellowship (2002), MIT Presidential Fellowship (1999)
11. ERASMUS Fellowships (1997 and 1996)
CV: Page 2 of 11
12. Awards of the National Technical University of Athens:
Best student in Civil Engineering, graduating class of 1999
Kritikos Prize: Best Performance in Mathematics, during the first year of studies.
Papakuriakopoulos Prize: Best Performance in Mathematics
Thomaidis Prize: Best student in the Department of Civil Engineering, NTUA
13. Foundation of Hellenic Government Fellowships (I.K.Y.):
Best of the class student in Civil Engineering Academic Years 94/95, 95/96, 96/97, 97/98, 98/99
14. Technical Chamber of Greece:
Best student in the Department of Civil Engineering, NTUA: Academic Year 95/96
Best 1% of all Students in Greek Technical Universities: Academic Years 94/95, 96/97, 97/98, 98/99
Research Experience
1. Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin; 2009-present
Computational study of soils and soft rocks under large strains and high confining stresses. Evolutionary
(forward in time), finite element poro-mechanical modeling of pore pressure, stress and deformation in
systems that evolve with time and are characterized by high stress levels.
Soil behavior under high confining stresses. Numerical implementation of constitutive laws.
Numerical tools: ABAQUS®, ELFEN®
2. Shell International Exploration and Production; 2008-2009
Geomechanical modeling of sand reservoirs during pressure depletion; use of 3D finite element tools
(ABAQUS) with user defined material models; adaptation of ABAQUS© to depleted drilling numerical
modeling workflows.
Supervisor: Dr. M. Myers
3. MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
a. Doctoral thesis (2003-2008): Formulation of a constitutive model to predict the compression behavior
of a tropical soil, the Old Alluvium of Puerto Rico. Model links the macroscopic behavior with the
physicochemical characteristics of the soil and introduces Cation Exchange Capacity as a state variable
to map microstructural changes. Supervisor: Prof. A.J. Whittle.
b. Modeling of the behavior of deep excavations in Berlin Sand. Project in collaboration with Technical
University of Berlin, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. A.J. Whittle (2001-2003)
c. Implementation of the MIT constitutive soil models in PLAXIS finite element code of soil and rock
analyses. Supervisor: Prof. A.J. Whittle (2002-2003)
4. MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Automatic generation of soil profiles using MIT-developed program NOMAD. Further statistical
analysis of borehole data using MIT-developed NOMAD-KRIBS. Use of the program for mapping
ground water pollutant plumes. Investigation of the limitations of the application due to the nonstationary nature of hydrogeological data. Supervisor: H.H. Einstein (1999-2001).
5. MIT Department of Architecture
Study of the structural behavior and effectiveness of early gothic flying buttresses using limit analysis.
Approach includes parametric investigations and evaluation of actual structures. Supervisor: Prof. J.A.
Ochsendorf (2004-2006)
CV: Page 3 of 11
6. NTUA Department of Civil Engineering
Tunneling in urban areas. Mechanisms of settlements, case studies of various metropolitan tunneling
projects and predictions for Athens metro (line 2) using finite element code Phase2
. Supervisor: Prof. P.
Marinos (1998-1999)
Honors
1. Invited Early Career Keynote speaker, American Rock Mechanics Geomechanics Symposium (June 2017)
2. Invited Junior Keynote speaker, International Society of Rock Mechanics 2015 Congress (May 2015)
3. 2015 Tinker Family BEG Publication Award (April 2015)
4. Invited speaker, SEG Advanced Modeling (SEAM) Pressure Prediction project (January 2015)
5. Invited speaker, SPE/AAPG/SEG Pore Pressure Workshop, San Antonio, Texas (March 2014)
6. Invited speaker, Houston Geomechanics (February 2014)
7. Invited Keynote Speaker, 3rd International Geoqus Workshop, Potsdam, Germany (August 2012)
8. Member of the first class of the American Rock Mechanics Association Future Leaders (June 2012)
9. Best Technical paper, 3rd Int. Conference on Problematic Soils, Adelaide, Australia (April 2010)
10. MIT Fellowships:
George & Marie Vergottis MIT Fellowship (2005/06, 2006/07), Edmund K. Turner CEE Research
Fellowship (2002), MIT Presidential Fellowship (1999)
11. ERASMUS Fellowships (1997 and 1996)
CV: Page 2 of 11
12. Awards of the National Technical University of Athens:
Best student in Civil Engineering, graduating class of 1999
Kritikos Prize: Best Performance in Mathematics, during the first year of studies.
Papakuriakopoulos Prize: Best Performance in Mathematics
Thomaidis Prize: Best student in the Department of Civil Engineering, NTUA
13. Foundation of Hellenic Government Fellowships (I.K.Y.):
Best of the class student in Civil Engineering Academic Years 94/95, 95/96, 96/97, 97/98, 98/99
14. Technical Chamber of Greece:
Best student in the Department of Civil Engineering, NTUA: Academic Year 95/96
Best 1% of all Students in Greek Technical Universities: Academic Years 94/95, 96/97, 97/98, 98/99
Research Experience
1. Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin; 2009-present
Computational study of soils and soft rocks under large strains and high confining stresses. Evolutionary
(forward in time), finite element poro-mechanical modeling of pore pressure, stress and deformation in
systems that evolve with time and are characterized by high stress levels.
Soil behavior under high confining stresses. Numerical implementation of constitutive laws.
Numerical tools: ABAQUS®, ELFEN®
2. Shell International Exploration and Production; 2008-2009
Geomechanical modeling of sand reservoirs during pressure depletion; use of 3D finite element tools
(ABAQUS) with user defined material models; adaptation of ABAQUS© to depleted drilling numerical
modeling workflows.
Supervisor: Dr. M. Myers
3. MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
a. Doctoral thesis (2003-2008): Formulation of a constitutive model to predict the compression behavior
of a tropical soil, the Old Alluvium of Puerto Rico. Model links the macroscopic behavior with the
physicochemical characteristics of the soil and introduces Cation Exchange Capacity as a state variable
to map microstructural changes. Supervisor: Prof. A.J. Whittle.
b. Modeling of the behavior of deep excavations in Berlin Sand. Project in collaboration with Technical
University of Berlin, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. A.J. Whittle (2001-2003)
c. Implementation of the MIT constitutive soil models in PLAXIS finite element code of soil and rock
analyses. Supervisor: Prof. A.J. Whittle (2002-2003)
4. MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Automatic generation of soil profiles using MIT-developed program NOMAD. Further statistical
analysis of borehole data using MIT-developed NOMAD-KRIBS. Use of the program for mapping
ground water pollutant plumes. Investigation of the limitations of the application due to the nonstationary nature of hydrogeological data. Supervisor: H.H. Einstein (1999-2001).
5. MIT Department of Architecture
Study of the structural behavior and effectiveness of early gothic flying buttresses using limit analysis.
Approach includes parametric investigations and evaluation of actual structures. Supervisor: Prof. J.A.
Ochsendorf (2004-2006)
CV: Page 3 of 11
6. NTUA Department of Civil Engineering
Tunneling in urban areas. Mechanisms of settlements, case studies of various metropolitan tunneling
projects and predictions for Athens metro (line 2) using finite element code Phase2
. Supervisor: Prof. P.
Marinos (1998-1999)
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