Funded research projects
Project Title | Funding Agency | Department | Principal Investigators | Duration |
Shell Eco-Marathon |
Shell Oman LLC |
ENG | Najah Al Mhanna (PI) | 2017 -2018 |
Research project to monitor and communicate energy-efficient building methods |
The Research Council |
UPAD | Nikolaus Knebel (PI) | 2017 – 2018 |
Quaternary sea-level changes in Oman |
The Research CouncilORG-EBR-14-013 |
AGEO, STRD
|
Goesta Hoffman (PI)
Adrijana Car (Co-PI) |
2014 – 2018 |
Shell Eco-Marathon |
Shell Oman LLC |
ENG | Najah Al Mhanna (PI) | 2016 – 2017 |
Computer-Based Analysis of the Stochastic Stability of Mechanic Structures Driven by White and Colored Noise |
The Research CouncilORG-CBS-14-008 |
MAS | Florian Rupp, GUtech (PI)
Bernhard Heim (co-PI) |
2015 – 2017 |
Towards a flood resilient Omani society: improved tools for flood management |
The Research CouncilORG-EBR-13-026 |
STRD, AGEO, CS | Adrijana Car, GUtech (PI)
Ekkehard Holzbecher (Co-PI) Nabil Sahli (Co-PI) |
2014 – 2017 |
Short- and long-term environmental changes along the coastline of Oman (Arabian Peninsula)”. |
The Research CouncilORG-EBR-10-006 |
AGEO | Goesta Hoffman (PI) | 2011-2017 |
Shell Eco-Marathon |
Shell Oman LLC |
ENG | Najah Al Mhanna (PI) | 2015 – 2016 |
EcoHaus – an Energy-Efficient Residential Building in Muscat (competition phase) |
The Research Council |
UPAD | Nikolaus Knebel (PI) | 2015 – 2016 |
Towards sustainable settlement patterns in Oman |
The Research CouncilORG-CBS-09-001 |
UPAD | Sonia Nebel (PI) | 2010 – 2016 |
EcoHaus – an Energy-Efficient Residential Building in Muscat (construction phase) |
The Research Council |
UPAD | Nikolaus Knebel (PI) | 2014 – 2015 |
Shell Eco-Marathon |
Shell Oman LLC |
ENG | Najah Al Mhanna (PI) | 2014 – 2015 |
EcoHaus – an Energy-Efficient Residential Building in Muscat (planning phase) |
The Research Council |
UPAD | Nikolaus Knebel (PI) | 2013 – 2014 |
Shell Eco-Marathon |
Shell Oman LLC |
ENG | Najah Al Mhanna (PI) | 2013 – 2014 |
Oman Eco-Friendly House |
The Research Council |
UPAD | Nikolaus Knebel (PI) | 2012 – 2013 |
NORM in petroleum winning, Oman – Phase I |
Petroleum Development Oman LLC |
AGEO | Wiekert Visser (PI) | 2012 |
Pilot study of the nanoscale morphology of porosity in tight gas reservoirs of the Khulud field |
Petroleum Development Oman LLC |
AGEO | Janos Urai (PI)
Wiekert Visser (co-PI) Peter Kukla (co-PI) |
2012 |
Understanding reservoir quality distribution in the Ara stringers: diagenetic relationship in space and time |
Petroleum Development Oman LLC |
AGEO | Janos Urai (PI)
Peter Kukla (co-PI) |
2010-2012 |
Understanding stringer deformation and movement of ARA stringers enclosed in Ara salts |
Petroleum Development Oman LLC |
AGEO | Janos Urai (PI) | 2008-2009 |
Other areas of research:
Project Title | Funding Agency | Department | Principal and co-Principal Investigators | Duration |
Shallow Cores of Ras Al Hamra |
PDO | AGEO | Michaela Bernecker, GUtech (PI) | 2017 |
Upper Shuaiba Foramtion |
Daleel | AGEO | Michaela Bernecker, GUtech (PI) | 2017 |
Biostratigraphic Correlation in the Khuff Formation |
PDO | AGEO | Michaela Bernecker, GUtech (PI) | 2017 |
Design, Construction and Testing of a Miniature Low Cost Power Plant |
GUtech | ENG | Thomas Lattimore, GUtech (co-PI) | 2017 |
Borcherds Lifts, Symmetries and the Andre-Oort Conjecture |
Max-Planck-Society | MAS | Bernhard Heim, GUtech (PI) | 2016-2017 |
Symmetries and the Maass Spezialschar of Level N |
RWTH Aachen | MAS | Bernhard Heim, GUtech (PI) | 2016 |
Visiting Professorship at the TU München |
Travel grant by the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and Art | MAS | Florian Rupp, GUtech (PI) | 2015 |
Visiting Researcher Scholarship at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Tromsø |
Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Tromsø, Norway | MAS | Florian Rupp, GUtech (PI) | 2015 |
Monitoring Groundwater using Energy Water Smart Meters and Precision Irrigation. |
TRC Open Research Grant RC/SGR/ECON/12/01 | AGEO | Dr. Slim Zekri, SQU (PI)
Edna Kalbus, GUtech (Co-PI) |
2013-2014 |
Women at work in Oman’s emerging private sector: Opportunities and constraints of female labour participation in a rentier economy in transition” |
One-year research project funded by the Economic Research
Forum, Cairo |
STRD | Marike Bontenbal, Gutech (PI) | 2013- 2014 |
O:NLAP (Obduction: no longer a puzzle) |
ANR (Agence nationale pour la recherché, i.e. French Research Agency) | AGEO | Philippe Agard, Université Paris VI (PI)
Celine Ducassou, GUtech (Co-PI) |
2009-2014 |
Regulating Informality – the Influence of Planning Standards on long term Suitability of urban Settlements – the Cases of Dar es Salaam/ Tanzania and Durban South Africa |
Funded by DFG, Germany | UPAD | Wolfgang Scholz (GUtech) in cooperation with Ardhi University Tanzania and and University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban South Africa | 2013 |
Shallow cores of Ras Al Hamra |
PDO supported project | AGEO | Michaela Bernecker, GUtech (PI) | 2013 |
Scalable Algorithms for Massive Complex Data Analysis |
International Program Development Fund Australia | CS | Hong Seokhee, University of Sydney, Australia (PI)
Rudolf Fleisher, GUtech (Co-PI) |
2013 |
Max-Planck-Institute Mathematics Bonn |
Max-Planck Society | MAS | Bernhard Heim (GUtech) joint work with Dr. Kaiser (MPIM) and Professor Murase (Kyoto). | 2013 |
Addis Modern. Re-discovering the 1960s Architecture of Africa’s Capital City |
Goethe Institut, German Embassy Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development | UPAD | Nikolaus Knebel, GUtech (PI) | 2012-2013 |
Study on parameterized algorithms and complexity of target set selection |
Chun-Tsung project | CS | Rudolf Fleischer (GUtech) with BSc student Ma Wenxuan, Fudan University, Shanghai, China | 2012 |
Automorphic Forms |
Tata Institute for
Fundamental Research Bomba |
MAS | Bernhard Heim (GUtech) joint work with Professor Rajan | 2012 |