Nicolaj Mahlstedt

Nicolaj Mahlstedt joined GEOS4 in 2013 as Petroleum System Analyst and is active as a guest scientist in the Organic Geochemistry group at GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany. He graduated in Applied Geosciences and holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin. He has 15+ years’ experience in upstream research and development with a focus on deep organic carbon cycling. Nick is a member of EAOG and AAPG.

Nick´s major scientific interests include petroleum system analysis in sedimentary basins worldwide, generation of oil and energy gases (including H₂) from organic matter, fractionation processes associated with natural oil migration/expulsion and production, compositional kinetic modelling for predicting phase behavior, and the development of geochemical screening tools/proxies. He published about 50 papers, many of them with direct impact for the work of GEOS4.

Contact me: mahlstedt@geos4.com

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