Postdoctoral Fellow – Sen – 2025 Full-time

Postdoctoral Fellow – Sen – 2025

Hiring Department: Institute for Geophysics

Position Open To: All Applicants

Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40

FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA

Earliest Start Date: Immediately

Position Duration: Expected to Continue Until Apr 30, 2026

Location: PICKLE RESEARCH CAMPUS

Purpose: The candidate will be part of a research team, led by Prof. Mrinal Sen, engaged in cutting edge research on solving subsurface imaging problems using advanced techniques of full waveform modeling, inversion and uncertainty quantification. The team has also been developing physics-based machine learning algorithms for three dimensional seismic modeling, imaging and inversion using high performance computation including parallelization on GPUs.

Responsibilities:

• The research fellow will be engaged in the development of hybrid optimization methods for seismic inversion in anisotropic media and their efficient applications to active and passive source seismic data.
• Present results to the scientific community and broader public.
• Publish results in peer-reviewed journals.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Geophysics, Physics, Earth Sciences, Applied Mathematics or a related field. Ph.D. must have been earned within the past three years.

Salary Range: $65,000

Working Conditions:

• May work around standard office conditions.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.

Required Materials:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Brief (1-2 page) statement of interest
• Three references