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 Council

ORG-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 Council

ORG-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 Council

 ORG-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 Council

ORG-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 Council

ORG-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