Srikumar did his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University Centre in Svalbard and the University of Bergen, Norway. Earlier he finished his MS in Applied Geophysics from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), RWTH Aachen (Germany) and TU Delft (Netherlands); and a BSc in Exploration Geophysics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He is currently an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the iCRAG Marine Geoscience and Hydrocarbons research spoke. Srikumar’s research focuses on subsurface fluid flow, methane seeps, CCS, and assessing energy resources in the High Arctic such as methane hydrates in both marine and terrestrial setting.