Rate My Professor Ralf Haese

Professor Ralf Haese holds the position of Professor in Environmental Geochemistry in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences within the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. He joined the university in 2013. Prior to this appointment, he was at Geoscience Australia. In addition to his professorial role, he serves as Director of the Peter Cook Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage Research and as Associate Dean (Enterprise and Innovation) for the Faculty of Science. He leads the Geochemistry team and the Carbon Trap Lab, focusing on projects related to CO2 trapping mechanisms, mineral reactions, and reservoir characterization. Haese teaches courses in Environmental Geosciences and Hydrogeology & Environmental Geochemistry and supervises MSc and PhD students in these areas.

His research specializes in aqueous geochemistry, with emphasis on gas-fluid-rock reactions, reactive transport modeling in porous media, pore-scale processes, and geological carbon storage. Key areas include mineral dissolution and precipitation under CO2 storage conditions, CO2 mineralization in basalts and saline aquifers, fluid-rock interactions, and the impact of reservoir heterogeneity on storage capacity and geomechanical risks. Notable publications include 'Rates of mineral dissolution under CO2 storage conditions' (Black, Carroll, Haese, 2015), 'Continuous-flow analysis of dissolved inorganic carbon content in seawater' (Stoll, Bakker, Nobbe, Haese, 2001), 'Iron species determination to investigate early diagenetic reactivity in marine sediments' (Haese, Wallmann, Dahmke, Kretzmann, Müller, Schulz, 1997), 'Carbon geochemistry of cold seeps: methane fluxes and transformation in sediments from Kazan mud volcano, eastern Mediterranean Sea' (Haese, Meile, Van Cappellen, De Lange, 2003), and 'Pore water geochemistry of eastern Mediterranean mud volcanoes: Implications for fluid transport and fluid origin' (Haese, Hensen, de Lange, 2006). His work contributes to advancements in carbon capture and storage technologies through experimental and modeling approaches.