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Quintessa provides further support to the Northern Endurance Partnership

2 Oct 2024

Quintessa has recently conducted an independent review of the subsurface Early Risk Assessment for Carbon Storage Licence CS025 on behalf of the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP). This continues the support Quintessa has previously provided to NEP through review of subsurface risk assessments fo…

Peter Webb and Sam Parsons Join Quintessa

30 Aug 2024

Quintessa is pleased to announce that Peter Webb and Sam Parsons joined the company on 27th August 2024.

How did Quintessa’s Sports Rating Algorithm Perform at Euro 2024?

14 Aug 2024

After an exciting Euro 2024, it’s time to assess how Quintessa’s N-Estimates sports rating algorithm has performed.

Quintessa supports innovative Flow Path Sealing paper

7 Aug 2024

Richard Metcalfe co-authored a recent Open Access paper in Nature Communications Engineering: Yoshida et al. “Post-earthquake rapid resealing of bedrock flow-paths by concretion-forming resin”.

University students Rosie Burt and Tafheem Ali start their placement year at Quintessa

19 Jul 2024

Quintessa welcomes Rosie Burt from the University of Bath and Tafheem Ali from the University of Manchester as they start placements with us. This will form part of Rosie's undergraduate course in Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science, and follows the successful completion of Tafheem's Earth and…

Quintessa Contributes to the Climate Tech Conference 2024

17 Jul 2024

Richard Metcalfe recently participated as an Expert Panellist in a group discussion session entitled “Carbon Management from the Insurance Lens”, at the Climate Tech Conference 2024, organised by the Geneva Association in Zurich, Switzerland.

AMBER 6.7.1 Released

15 Jul 2024

Quintessa is pleased to announce that the latest version of AMBER has been released. AMBER 6.7.1 includes a number of bug fixes.

Sports Rating Algorithm Predicts UEFA Euro 2024 Knock-Out Stages

11 Jul 2024

UEFA Euro 2024 is heating up! The group stage has passed, which means it’s knock-out football from here, and Quintessa’s N-Estimates algorithm will be offering its predictions every step of the way.

New TESLA video tutorial released

1 Jul 2024

With the help of placement student Jennifer Wilson, Quintessa has released the first in a series of video tutorials for its decision-support software, TESLA, in the form of a YouTube playlist. Subsequent tutorial videos will be added to the playlist.

Quintessa Placement Student attends IAEA Workshop

26 Jun 2024

One of Quintessa’s placement students, Jennifer Wilson, has recently participated in a week-long IAEA workshop on ‘Techniques and Technologies for characterising radioactively contaminated land’ held at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in the UK.

Sports Rating Algorithm Predicts UEFA Euro 2024 Group Stages

24 Jun 2024

Quintessa mathematicians and scientists enjoy analysing numbers, and at least some of them love sport. Our ever-popular sports team rating algorithm was used to forecast results for UEFA 2020 and the FIFA World Cup in 2022; now, with UEFA Euro 2024 approaching fast, the algorithm is being fired up…

Quintessa celebrates Employee Ownership Day 2024

21 Jun 2024

Quintessa is celebrating this year’s UK Employee Ownership Day (EO Day), run by the Employee Ownership Association (eoa), by engaging with charitable organisations that we have supported as part of our contributions to the wider community.

Recent Coupled Modelling Papers supported by Quintessa

13 Jun 2024

Two coupled modelling papers have been published recently with Alex Bond as a co-author, presenting the history and outcomes of the DECOVALEX initiative, and demonstrating the application of coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical modelling to abandoned mine stability for heat storage.

Tailored AMBER and Biosphere Assessment training course delivered to RADCORE

6 Jun 2024

Quintessa recently welcomed five RADCORE employees to our Henley-on-Thames office for a week-long in-person tailored AMBER and biosphere assessment training course.

COVRA reports published

30 Apr 2024

A number of reports have been published on the work that Quintessa has undertaken for the Central Organisation for Radioactive Waste (COVRA) relating to its domal salt repository design.

Quintessa is Recruiting - Geoscientist

2 Apr 2024

An opportunity has arisen for a geoscientist to join our team which provides support to clients in areas such as carbon capture and storage, waste management and site restoration. The associated projects typically involve working closely with clients to develop innovative approaches to solve divers…

Quintessa Celebrates 25 Years of Operation

1 Mar 2024

It is 25 years ago today that David Hodgkinson founded Quintessa with the aim of providing an enjoyable and fulfilling working environment in which talented scientists and mathematicians could use their problem-solving skills to help clients. Over the subsequent years, the Company’s services have g…

AMBER Safety Assessment Training for CNEA, Argentina

11 Jan 2024

In November, Quintessa delivered a training course in post-closure safety assessment for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste using AMBER to the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) and the Argentine Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) in Buenos Aires, supported by an Internat…