UTIG Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships
Each year, the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics awards Distinguished Fellowships to a small handful of exceptional postdoctoral candidates.
Distinguished fellows are supported through two endowments; the Palisades Postdoctoral Fellowship and Richard T. Buffler Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Duration: Appointments are typically two to three years.
Now hiring: UTIG Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Last updated: October 21, 2024
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Current Fellows
Erik Fredrickson
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Characterizing slow slip events in the Hikurangi subduction zone from seafloor pressure geodesy
Mentors: Laura Wallace, Demian Saffer, Patrick Heimbach
Joined: 2023
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Perianne Johnson
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Pluto’s climate and wandering poles, evolution of icy ocean worlds
Mentor: Krista Soderlund
Joined: 2023
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Sara Oliveira Santos
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Engineering robots for subsurface exploration on icy ocean worlds
Mentor: Krista Soderlund
Joined: 2024
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Past Fellows
Alice Turner
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Investigating lunar tectonics from shallow moonquakes
Mentor: Sean Gulick
Appointment: 2022-2024
Currently: Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Enze Zhang
Project: Predicting glacier behavior with machine learning
Mentor: Ginny Catania
Appointment: 2021-2024
Currently: The Hong Kong University of Science
Adam Woodhouse
Project: Mid-Miocene climate change and evolution of the Orbulina lineage
Mentor: Chris Lowery
Appointment: 2021-2023
Currently: Cardiff University
Srisharan Shreedharan
Project: Subduction zone fault mechanics and earthquake physics
Mentor: Demian Saffer/Laura Wallace/Luc Lavier
Appointment: 2021-2023
Currently: Utah State University (faculty)
Zach Sickmann
Project: Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis project/ Sand provenance
Mentor: John Snedden
Appointment: 2020-2022 (Buffler)
Currently: The University of Texas at Dallas (faculty)
Anja Rustishauser
Project: Glaciology and remote sensing
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2018-2021
Currently: Geological Survey of Denmark (researcher)
Sylvia Dee
Project: Paleoclimate modeling
Mentor: Pedro DiNezio
Appointment: 2017-2018
Currently: Rice University (faculty)
Matthew Weller
Project: Planetary and ice-ocean dynamics of Enceladus and Europa
Mentor: Krista Soderlund
Appointment: 2016-2018
Currently: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (faculty)
Kaustubh Thirumalai
Project: Paleoclimate
Mentor: Terry Quinn
Appointment: 2016-2017
Currently: University of Arizona (faculty)
Chastity Aiken
Project: Earthquake source seismology
Mentor: Cliff Frohlich/Jake Walter
Appointment: 2016-2018
Currently: Ifremer (researcher)
Chris Lowery
Project: Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis project
Mentor: John Snedden
Appointment: 2015-2018 (Buffler)
Currently: UTIG (faculty)
Michael Erb
Project: Paleoclimate modeling
Mentor: Charles Jackson
Appointment: 2014-2016
Currently: Northern Arizona University (assistant research professor)
Tim Bartholomaus
Project: Ice-ocean interactions in Greenland
Mentor: Ginny Catania
Appointment: 2014-2016
Currently: University of Idaho (faculty)
Jacqueline Reber
Project: Fault Rheology, semi-brittle and granular media deformation, slow slip events.
Mentor: Luc Lavier
Appointment: 2013-2015
Currently: Iowa State University (faculty)
Rodrigo Fernandez-Vasquez
Project: Glacial history of Straits of Magellan, Chile, and Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica
Mentor: Sean Gulick
Appointment: 2012-2017
Currently: University of Chile (faculty)
Krista Soderlund
Project: Ocean dynamics of Europa
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2011-2013
Currently: UTIG (faculty)
Deborah Khider
Project: Paleoclimate proxy calibration
Mentor: Terry Quinn/Charles Jackson
Appointment: 2011-2013
Currently: USC ISI (research scientist)
Cyril Grima
Project: Antarctica ice-water-bedrock interactions from radar imaging
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2011-2013
Currently: UTIG (faculty)
Britney Schmidt
Project: Ice-ocean interactions on Europa
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2010-2013
Currently: Cornell University (faculty)
Patrick Fulton
Project: Coupled fluid flow and heat transport
Mentor: Peter Flemings
Appointment: 2010-2012
Currently: Cornell University (faculty)