Ceri J Vincent graduated with an MSci in geophysics from the University of Leeds in 2000. She has worked at the British Geological Survey (BGS) on CO₂storage projects for over 18 years. Her CO₂storage related research  includes interpretation of geological and geophysical data for assessment and characterisation of potential storage sites at a range of scales (basin to reservoir). 

Ceri is science lead for the UK Energy Research AcceleratorGeoEnergy Test Bed, a field laboratory designed to advance understanding of processes and impacts in the shallow subsurface in order to refine monitoring techniques and technologies for CO₂storage sites. Ceri is leading the workpackage on ‘managing leakage risks for protection of the environment and groundwater’ for the CO₂GeoNet H2020 ENOS (ENabling Onshore Storage) project. 

Ceri is President of CO₂GeoNet (2019 – 2021), the European Network of Excellence on the geological storage of CO₂. She is also an Honorary Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham (2014 onwards). 

 Thelma KRUG is a former senior researcher at the Earth Observation Coordination at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, under the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC).

She was elected Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Sixth Cycle of Panel (October 2015 – 2023), after having been co-chair of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories from 2002 until 2015. She is chair of the Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOP-C) under the Global Climate Observation System (GCOS).

She holds a PhD on Spatial Statistics from the University of Sheffield, UK.  She has been Deputy National Secretary at the Secretary on Policies and Programs of Science and Technology at MCTIC; National Secretary at the Secretary on Climate Change and Environmental Quality from the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) and Director of the Department on Policies to Combat Deforestation under the Secretary of Climate Change and Forests at the MMA.

For more than 15 years she represented Brazil in the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with particular focus on issues related to land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).

Since 2020 the chairs the Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC) of the Global Climate Observation System (GCOS) under the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In January 2021 she was nominated to be a member of FAPESP (Foundation for the Support of Research in the State of Sao Paulo).

Fernanda M.L. VELOSO is a geologist specialised in geological and reservoir modelling for geological storage of CO₂. Before she joined the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM, the French Geological Survey) and completed her PhD, Fernanda spent five years at Total, an international oil and gas company. Fernanda is project coordinator for STRATEGY CCUS and PilotSTRATEGY, both funded by EC in the framework of H2020 program.

Carsten M. NIELSEN. Senior Reservoir Engineer (M.Sc.) at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). 25 years of experience as a reservoir engineer; working with O&G reservoir evaluation, field development, reserve estimation. Working with CCS for the past 15 years. Experiences both as a researcher/advisor at GEUS and as an expert/regulator at the Danish Energy Agency.

Roman Berenblyum holds a PhD (2004) from Danish Technical University. Since 2006 Roman has worked in NORCE (IRIS merged together with 5 other institutes from 01.01.2019), currently leading a group on Reservoir Characterisation, Simulation and Geomatics. He is focusing on carbon dioxide utilisation and storage, fluid behavior and reservoir simulation related to IOR/EOR. Roman is currently serving as a chair of CO2GeoNet Executive Committee. Roman has been involved in and coordinated multidisciplinary research and industry-oriented projects in Norway, Middle East, Latin America and Russia.

Barbara Merson graduated in Environmental Science, with marine specialisation, and she also holds a Master's Degree in Management of Universities and Research.
She has worked in Italy and abroad in both public and private projects, coordinating Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports.
Since 2010 she has been working at OGS, the Italian Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, within the technical-scientific organisation of International projects and Italian initiatives in the field of CCS, supporting also the CO2GeoNet Secretariat based in OGS.
For seven years she was seconded to the Research Promotion and International Cooperation Office, supporting the OGS governance for the drafting of the strategic plans of the institution, for the promotion and enhancement of OGS research at Italian and international level managing relations with the European Commission and with the Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research.
Since 2020 she is the Secretary General of the CO2GeoNet Association.

Prof. Martin SAAR is the chair of the Geothermal Energy and Geofluids (GEG.ethz.ch) group and the Institute of Geophysics Chair in the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The GEG group investigates reactive subsurface multiphase, multicomponent fluid and energy transfer, addressing fundamental to applied research questions, such as groundwater and hydrocarbon flow, geologic CO2 storage, and geothermal energy utilization - often combining these topics.
In 2009, Prof. Saar co-invented CO2-Plume Geothermal (CPG) energy extraction and utilization and a bit later CPG Energy Storage (CPGES or Earth Battery). The next step in CPG/CPGES development is to plan, model and conduct a CPG pilot test in the field, for which a consortium will be founded in the GEG group at ETH Zurich.