Ingeborg Skjelkvåle Ligaarden
Home address:
Minister Ditleffs vei 17 A
0862 Oslo
Norway
Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (+47) 976-94109
Email: ingebol@ifi.uio.no
Birth date: 05.08.1983
Keywords: Analytical, outgoing, determined, positive, and hard-working.
Work Experience
SINTEF ICT
2008-present
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Oslo
Research Scientist
Programming and research in connection with numerical simulation of flow in porous media, in
particular simulations for risk analysis of CO2-injection. Part of the development team of the open
source MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox.
Statoil
Summer 2007
Statoil Research Center, Trondheim
Summer Student
Summer student on the project “Compact Subsea Separation - Modeling, Simulation and Control”,
where we developed a physical model of a compact subsea separation system and implemented the
model in MATLAB.
Norwegian Computing Center
Summer 2006
Oslo
Summer Student
Summer job at the SAND-department (Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data), implementing
a model for parameter translation in MATLAB for use in geostatistics.
Education
University of Oslo
2006-2008
Master of Science
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Computational Science, specializing in
partial differential equations. Master thesis: “Well Models for Mimetic Finite Difference Methods
and Improved Representation of Wells in Multiscale Methods”.
University of Oslo
Bachelor in Computational Science and Mathematics
2003-2006
Services
Member of the board in Tekna at SINTEF
2011-present
Representing the members of Tekna - The Norwegian Society of Chartered Technical and Scientific
Professionals at SINTEF.
Representative for Tekna at SINTEF ICT
Local representative for Tekna members at SINTEF ICT.
2009-2010
President of the Student Board in Tekna
2006-2007
The position included political work, observer seat in Tekna’s Board of Directors, media contact,
and leadership of Tekna’s Student Board.
Professional interests
Software development, numerical modeling and analysis of data.
Personal skills
Languages: Fluent in Norwegian and English. Basic German and Spanish.
Programming languages: Advanced programming in MATLAB. Basic knowledge of Java, Python,
Perl, Bash, and C++.
Operating systems: Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Other interests: Music (member of a revue group), hiking, skiing, and biking.
Publications
Journal papers
1. K.-A. Lie, S. Krogstad, I. S. Ligaarden, J. R. Natvig, H. M. Nilsen, and B. Skaflestad. Open source MATLAB
implementation of consistent discretisations on complex grids. Comput. Geosci., 2011.
2. M. Krotkiewski, I. S. Ligaarden, K.-A. Lie, D. W. Schmid. On the importance of the Stokes-Brinkman
equations for computing effective permeability in carbonate karst reservoirs. Comm. Comput. Phys., Vol.
10, No. 5, pp. 1315-1332, 2011.
3. H. M. Nilsen, P. A. Herrera, M. Ashraf, I. S. Ligaarden, M. Iding, C. Hermanrud, K.-A. Lie, J. M. Nordbotten, H. K. Dahle, and E. Keilegavlen. Field-case simulation of CO2-plume migration using verticalequilibrium models. Energy Procedia, Vol. 4, pp. 3801-3808, 2011.
Conference Proceedings
1. K.-A. Lie, I. S. Ligaarden, and H. M. Nilsen (2010). Accurate discretisation of vertically-averaged models
of CO2 plume migration. ECMOR XII. EAGE.
2. I. S. Ligaarden, M. Krotkiewski, K.-A. Lie, M. Pal, and D. W. Schmid (2010). On the Stokes-Brinkman
equations for modeling flow in carbonate reservoirs. ECMOR XII. EAGE.
3. I. S. Ligaarden and H. M. Nilsen (2010). Numerical aspects of using vertical equilibrium models for simulating
CO2 sequestration. ECMOR XII. EAGE.
4. B. Skaflestad, K.-A. Lie, S. Krogstad, I. S. Ligaarden, J. R. Natvig, and H. M. Nilsen (2010). Discretisation
on complex and polyhedral grids – Open source MATLAB implementation. ECMOR XII. EAGE.
Thesis
Master thesis: Well models for mimetic finite difference methods and improved representation of wells in
multiscale methods. http://folk.uio.no/ingebol/
References
Available upon request.