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IRETHERM is a four-and-a-half year, all-island, North-South, academic-government-industry collaborative project between DIAS, UCD, UCC, GSI, GSNI, and SLR Consulting to develop a strategic and holistic understanding of Ireland's geothermal energy potential through integrated modelling of new and existing geophysical and geological data.
Founding partners:
- Professor Alan G. Jones, School of Cosmic Physics, Geophysics Section, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. (DIAS)
- Dr. Alistair Allen, Department of Geology, University College, Cork. (UCC)
- Professor Stephen Daly, School of Geological Sciences, University College, Dublin. (UCD)
- Taly Hunter-Williams, Monica Lee, Geological Survey of Ireland. (GSI)
- Derek Reay, Mohammednur Desissa Geological Survey of Northern Ireland. (GSNI)
- Nick O'Neill, Gareth Jones, SLR Consulting. (SLR)
Affiliated Partners and Collaborators:
- Dr. Martin Feely, Dr. Tiernan Henry, Earth and Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway (NUIG)
- GT Energy. (GT Energy)
- Ric Pasquali, GeoServ Solutions. (GeoServ)
- Dr. Nicola Piana Agostinetti, Professor Sergei Lebedev, School of Cosmic Physics, Geophysics Section, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. (DIAS)
- Dr. Mike Long, School of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University College, Dublin (UCD)
- Dr. Max Moorkamp, Department of Geology, University of Leicester (U Leicester)
- Dr. Thomas Kalscheuer, Institute of Geophysics, ETH, Zurich (ETH Geophysics)
- Annemarie Smyth, Providence Resources (Providence Resources)
- Javier Fullea, Instituto de Geociencias, CSIC, Madrid (IGEO, CSIC, Madrid)
IRETHERM Post-Doctoral Fellows:
- Javier Fullea, DIAS (SFI funded), Now in Madrid.
- Jan Vozar, DIAS (SFI funded)
- Jan Vozar, DIAS (DIAS funded)
IRETHERM PhD students:
- Sarah Blake, DIAS (SFI funded)
- Robert Delhaye, DIAS (SFI funded)
- Thomas Farrell, DIAS (SFI funded)
- Tobias Fritschle, UCD (UCD ENS funded)
- Nicola Willmot Noller, UCD (SFI funded)
IRETHERM MEng student:
- Tim Waters, UCD (SFI funded)






