Romain chassagne

I am a senior researcher and project manager at  BRGM (French Geological Survey), France. Working around and promoting georessources and Digital Twins,  uncertainty characterisation to support decision making for exploration and exploitation.


Last News 

- Our abtract along with Florian Wellmann has been accepted in SIAM Geosciences Bergen June 2023

- Tony Hallam successfully passed his PhD viva with minor corrections !  Big congratulations to him! (December 2022)

Research

Recruitment

If you are a motivated student with a strong interest in research willing to work on real world problem do not hesitate to contact me for possible master's thesis, internships, PhD thesis and postdocs.

My research

I do computational engineering for Geosciences, working on semi-automated methods to offer a more quantitative qualification and characterisation of the uncertainty in data and models in a merger workflow type of approach. We can call it data integration, data assimilation, or digital twins. My work is real world data-centric driven (deep geothermal, CO2 storage), therefore, aiming to support the decision making process for ressources exploration and exploitation. I develop this approach through different projects I lead or I contribute to, with different research consortia funded by the European council or the French council, which includes industry and academics' partners.

Areas of Interests
  • Quantitative and assisted Geothermal exploration
  • Geothermal monitoring and forecasting
  • Tailored uncertainty characterisation and propagation
  • Generalisation of techniques and methods for georessources (exploration and exploitation)
Problems and methods of Interests
  • Multi-stream data integration (wells, map-based data)
  • Mathematical and computational methods, generalisation and automatisation
  • Uncertainty analysis and propagation
  • Objective function (fitness landscape, metrics, pattern recognition)
International collaboration
  • Claus Aranha (Assistant Professor,Tsukuba University, Japan) / 2014-Ongoing
  • Julien Dambrine (Assistant Professor, Poitiers University, France) / 2015-Ongoing
  • Olivier Atteia (Professor, Bordeaux University, France) / 2021-Ongoing
  • Hernan Aguirre (Professor, Shinshu University, Japan) / 2021-2022
  • Pierre Polsenaere (Research Scientist, IFREMER, France) / 2021-2022
  • Dominique Guérillot (Professor at Texas A&M at Qatar) / 2018-2019
  • Rafael Almar (Research Scientist, IRD, France) / 2017-2018
  • Dean Oliver (Principal Researcher, CIPR, Norway) / 2016-2018
  • Alex Fukunaga (Assistant Professor,Tokyo University, Japan) / 2014-2015
  • Magalie Clays Bruno (Assistant professor, Marseilles University, France) / 2015-2016
  • Michelle Sergent (Professor, Marseilles University, France) / 2015-20168
Grants/Awards
  • Dr. Romain Chassagne (PI) et al.,Agence National de la Recherche (ANR)GLITER, Integrative multiscale investigation of heat and lithium source and pathways in Deep geothermal System in a rift context: Focus on the Upper Rhine Graben, 2022 - 2026
  • Professor Colin MacBeth, Dr. Romain Chassagne, Edinburgh Time-Lapse Project (ETLP) Consortium, 2021 - 2024
  • Dr. Julien Dambrine, Dr. Romain Chassagne, Mathieu Naudin, MEDIA IRM3D (subvention de recherche région Nouvelle-Aquitaine) / LRCom I3M (Siemens/CNRS/Université de Poitiers), 2021 - 2023.
  • Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) long-term Fellowship 2019.
  • Dr. Romain Chassagne, Pr. Dominique Guerrilot, British council, GSIKE Joint Academic Development, 2018.
  • Professor Colin MacBeth, Dr. Hamed Amini, Dr. Romain Chassagne, Dr. Maria-Daphne Mangriotis, Edinburgh Time-Lapse Project (ETLP) Consortium, 2018 - 2021.
  • Dr. Rachid Benshila, Dr. Rafael Almar, Dr. Romain Chassagne, LEFE INSU, 2017.
  • Dr. Romain Chassagne, Sasakawa Foundation Award, 2016
  • Professor Colin MacBeth, Dr. Romain Chassagne, JIP 2016 - 2017.​
  • Professor Colin MacBeth, Dr. Romain Chassagne, Dr. Maria-Daphne Mangriotis, Edinburgh Time-Lapse Project (ETLP) Consortium, 2015 - 2018.
  • Dr. Romain Chassagne, Sasakawa Foundation Award, 2014
  • Professor Colin MacBeth, Dr. Romain Chassagne, Dr. Maria-Daphne Mangriotis, Edinburgh Time-Lapse Project (ETLP) Consortium, 2013 - 2015.
  • Dr. Romain Chassagne, Edinburgh Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter, 2014.
  • PhD studentship from ANR (agence national de la recherche) 2008-2010.

Activities

Supervision of PhD Students
  • Paul Mitchell (in progress)
  • Ignacio Guridi (with Bordeaux University, in progress)

  • Antony Halam (completed in 2022)
  • Saeed Izadian (completed in 2022)
  • Samarth Bachkheti (completed in 2022)
  • Gustavo Corte (completed in 2020)
  • Cheng Gong (completed in 2018)
  • Niki Obiwulu (completed in 2018)
  • Zhen (David) Yin (completed in 2017)
  • Dennis Obidegwu (completed in 2015)

    • mentoring of postdocs 
    • Zhen (David) Yin (2017)
    • Gustavo Corte (2021)
    • Bernardo Gato (with Tsukuba University, 2021)

    Volunteer experience, professional related
    • Since 2022/ EERA Geothermal deputy sub-programme coordinator for Computing and data management
    • Since 2020/ Associate Editor in Computers and Geosciences Journal
    • 2022 - EAGE WIPIC Technical committee
    • 2015 - currently/ Reviewer: EAGE and SPE EUROPEC Technical Programme
    • 2013 - currently/ Reviewer: Computers & Geosciences Journal.
    • 2019 - EAGE WIPIC Technical committee
    • 2018 - 2020/ Reviewer: Arabian Journal for Geosciences
    • 2018 - 2020/ Reviewer: Journal of Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
    • 2015 - 2020/ Reviewer: Computational Geosciences
    • 2015 - 2020/ Reviewer: Journal of Natural Gas and Engineering
    • 2015 - 2018 / Member of the committee EAGE Young professionals​

    Last Publications (Papers and conferences)

  • Enhancing 4D Seismic History Matching and Reservoir Monitoring by Local Exploration of the Uncertainty Space of Seismic Data R Amiri, C Macbeth, J Landa, R Chassagne. First EAGE/SBGf Workshop on Reservoir Monitoring and its Role in the Energy transition.

  • Efficient Dimensionality Reduction and Localized Sensitivity Analysis for 4D Seismic History Matching Parameterization RA Kolajoobi, C MacBeth, J Landa, R Chassagne 83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition 2022 (1), 1-5. 2022

  • Comparison of map metrics as fitness input for assisted seismic history matching A Hallam, R Chassagne, C Aranha, Y He. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering 19 (3), 457-474. 2022

  • Multivariate imputation via chained equations for elastic well log imputation and prediction A Hallam, D Mukherjee, R Chassagne. Applied Computing and Geosciences 14, 100083. 2022

    • Biography

    2022 to present

    RESEArch Project Manager    

    at BRGM (French Geological Survey).

    Orlean , FRANCE.


    2017 to2022

    RESEARCH FELLOW (ONLY-RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR)

    at Heriot-Watt UNIVERSITY,

    Edinburgh, UK.


    July to October 2019

    Visiting Professor

    at the Computer Science Department of Tsukuba,

    University in Japan.


    February 2018

    Visiting Researcher

    at the applied Mathematics Department, NORCE,

    Bergen, Norway.


    2014 to 2016

    Research Associate

    at Heriot-Watt University,

    Edinburgh, UK.


    2012 to 2013

    Research Engineer

    at the Department of Applied Mathematics, IFP Energies Nouvelles,

    Rueil-Malmaison, France.


    2010 to 2012

    Postdoc

    at the Department of Fluids Mechanics at the Schlumberger Cambridge Research,
    Cambridge, UK.

    2010

    PhD in Computational Geosciences

    at Bordeaux Université,

    Bordeaux, France.

    -->FULL CV 

    Contact

    BRGM
    Orléans
    45000
    France
    phone better to send me an email

    r.chassagne (here) brgm.fr