Staff at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. To see staff by role visit Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Fellows, Scientific Support, Research Affiliates, and Administrative. To see staff by primary research discipline please visit: Climate, Energy, Polar and Planetary, and Marine Geosciences, Seismology and Tectonics.
 Eric Attias Research Assistant Professor 808-829-6559 attias@ig.utexas.edu Interests: lithosphere-biosphere interactions, hot-spot plume dynamics, toroidal mantle flow, oceanic transform faults, fluid flow in hydrate systems, subsea CO2, seafloor minerals More Info |  Jamie Austin Research Professor 512-471-0450 jamie@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margin stratigraphy, tsunamigenesic processes on continental margins, scientific ocean drilling More Info |  Nathan Bangs Research Professor 512-471-0424 nathan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: faults, structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics, climate More Info |  Thorsten Becker Professor twb@ig.utexas.edu Interests: geodynamics, seismology, fault systems More Info |
 Athma Bhandari Research Engineer 512-471-0462 athma.bhandari@utexas.edu Interests: fluid flow measurements in fine-grained rocks, geomechanics, petrophysics, unconventional energy resources More Info |  Don Blankenship Research Professor 512-471-0489 blank@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Chas Bolton Research Assistant Professor chas.bolton@beg.utexas.edu Interests: fault mechanics, earthquake rupture, foreshock properties, rock deformation, ultrasonics, machine learning, and induced seismicity More Info |  Donnie Brooks Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III 512-471-2403 donnie.brooks@austin.utexas.edu |
 Dillon Buhl Research Scientist Associate III dillon.buhl@utexas.edu |  Alejandro Cardona Research Associate alejandro.cardona@utexas.edu Interests: flow and transport in porous media, geomechanics, methane hydrates, fractured rocks More Info |  Ginny Catania Professor 512-471-0403 gcatania@ig.utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate More Info |  Gail Christeson Research Affiliate glchristeson@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology More Info |
 Freja Cini Communications Assistant freja.cini@utexas.edu Roles: Science writer, website updates, seminar series |  Robert Cunningham Research Affiliate/Research Fellow 325-248-5392 robert.cunningham@austin.utexas.edu Interests: petroleum systems, geochemistry, source rocks More Info |  Ian W. D. Dalziel Research Professor 512-471-0431 ian@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology More Info |  Marcy Davis Engineering Scientist 512-471-0425 marcy@ig.utexas.edu |
 Leopold Desage Postdoctoral Fellow leopolddesage@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: radar simulations, clutter discrimination, planetary subsurface characterization, Jupiter icy moons, Mars More Info |  Pedro DiNezio Research Affiliate 512-471-0411 pdn@ig.utexas.edu Interests: dynamics, prediction, impacts More Info |  Dan Duncan Engineering Scientist 512-471-0490 dduncan@ig.utexas.edu |  JJ Dupont Senior Administrative Associate 512-232-1605 jj.dupont@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Travel, events-related functions, inventory |
 Peter B. Flemings Professor 512-475-8738 pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: basin-scale fluid flow, methane hydrates, shale and mudstone permeability More Info |  Erik Fredrickson Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow erikfred@utexas.edu Interests: seafloor geodesy, tectonics, slow slip, and coastal oceanography More Info |  Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-6156 cliff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquakes, tectonics More Info |  William Galloway Professor Emeritus 512-471-0494 galloway@austin.utexas.edu Interests: depositional systems, Gulf of Mexico basin, petroleum geology More Info |
 Rosalind Gamble Executive Assistant 512-471-7197 rgamble@ig.utexas.edu Roles: General UTIG business, director calendar, room assignments, postdoc recruiting |  John Gerboc Sr. Software Developer/Analyst 512-471-0325 johng@ig.utexas.edu |  Phyllis Gesch Senior Administrative Associate phyllis@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Travel, student support |  John A. Goff Research Professor 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics More Info |
 Jamin Greenbaum Research Fellow 512-471-0385 jamin@utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, ice-ocean interactions, subglacial hydrological and geological controls on ice sheet stability More Info |  Cyril Grima Research Assistant Professor 512-471-0377 cyril.grima@utexas.edu Interests: planet, cryosphere, radar More Info |  Sean P. S. Gulick Research Professor 512-471-0483 sean@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, plate boundaries, glacial sequences, impact processes More Info |  Shuoshuo Han Research Assistant Professor 512-471-0415 han@ig.utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, oceanic lithosphere, marine geohazards More Info |
 Patrick Heimbach Research Professor 512-232-7694 heimbach@utexas.edu Interests: climate More Info |  Doug Hemingway Research Assistant Professor douglas.hemingway@utexas.edu Interests: geophysical modeling, icy moons, planetary magnetism, space weathering More Info |  Benjamin Hester Administrative Services Officer I 512-471-0413 ben@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Purchasing, facilities, and accounting oversight |  Brian Horton Professor 512-471-1869 horton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance More Info |
 Jesse Houghton Senior Project Manager jesse@ig.utexas.edu |  Zhe Jia Research Assistant Professor zhe.jia@austin.utexas.edu Interests: earthquake source complexities and their controlling factors, seismic and tsunami hazards, subduction process, injection-induced seismicity, dense seismic/geodetic arrays More Info |  Perianne Johnson Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow perianne.johnson@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: planetary science, outer solar system, ocean worlds, planetary ices, Pluto More Info |  Mercedes Jordan Research Engineering/ Scientist Associate I mtj639@utexas.edu Interests: reflectometry, planetary volcanism, remote sensing. More Info |
 Talia Jurgens Program Manager, Texas Space Grant Consortium jurgens@tsgc.utexas.edu More Info |  Kaixuan Kang Postdoctoral Fellow kaixuan.kang@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: glacial isostatic adjustment, sea level change, Holocene glacial retreat, global climate change, finite element model More Info |  Benjamin Keisling Research Assistant Professor keisling@ig.utexas.edu Interests: past climate, ice sheet dynamics, justice in geoscience More Info |  Elizabeth Kelton Procurement Specialist 512-471-0417 elizabeth@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Purchasing |
 Scott Kempf Sr. Software Engineer 512-471-0482 scottk@ig.utexas.edu |  Jessica Kolstad Kim Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist 512-471-0432 jessica@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Proposals, proposals, proposals, and NCEs |  Luc Lavier Professor 512-471-0455 luc@ig.utexas.edu Interests: flow and deformation of Earth's materials, tectonics of plate boundaries, computational methods for lithospheric deformation More Info |  Lawrence Lawver Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-0433 lawver@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions More Info |
 Duyi Li Postdoctoral Fellow duyi.li@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, radioglaciology, airborne geophysics More Info |  Summer Li Project Manager summer@ig.utexas.edu Interests: ArcGIS Geoscience database management, microtectonics, structural geology |  Chuanming Liu Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow chuanming.liu@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, tectonics, subduction zones, Antarctica More Info |  Dunyu Liu Computational Geoscientist dliu@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquake dynamic ruptures and cycles, numerical modeling, parallel computing, fault geometric complexity, ground motion simulation More Info |
 Chris Lowery Research Assistant Professor cmlowery@utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy More Info |  Angela Marable Senior Program Coordinator angela@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Proposals, award negotiation, sponsored project data management |  Nina Martinez Communications Specialist nina.martinez@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Communications lead for NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium and UT Center for Planetary Systems Habitability |  Tanner Mills Postdoctoral Fellow tanner.mills@utexas.edu Interests: sediment mechanics, fluid flow, geochemistry, geomicrobiology, sedimentology |
 Susanne Morrison Senior Human Resources Coordinator susanne@ig.utexas.edu |  Terri Muir Senior Administrative Associate terri@ig.utexas.edu Roles: accounts payable, purchasing, facilities |  Yosio Nakamura Professor Emeritus 512-471-0428 yosio@ig.utexas.edu Interest: seismology More Info |  Gregory Ng Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0482 ngg@ig.utexas.edu More Info |
 Maria-Aikaterini Nikolinakou Research Scientist mariakat@mail.utexas.edu Interests: geomechanics, salt tectonics, pore pressure, stress state, numerical modeling, subduction zones More Info |  Ian Norton Sr. Research Fellow 512-471-0423 norton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins More Info |  Josh O'Connell Research Scientist Associate V josh@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Ron O'Neill Senior System Administrator 512-471-0389 ron@ig.utexas.edu |
 Yuko Okumura Research Associate Professor 512-471-0383 yukoo@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change More Info |  Constantino Panagopulos Communications Coordinator 512-574-7376 costa@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Communications, media requests |  Jud Partin Research Associate Professor 512-471-6156 jpartin@ig.utexas.edu Interests: paleoclimate, data-model comparisons, tropical climate More Info |  Fran Pena Senior Administrative Program Coordinator, Flemings Research Group 512-475-7585 franp@austin.utexas.edu Roles: Administration support, travel coordination, event management |
 Marcie Purkey Phillips Research Engineering/Scientist Professional marciep@ig.utexas.edu |  Cornelia Rasmussen Research Assistant Professor crasmussen@utexas.edu Interests: impact cratering, radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry, paleoecology More Info |  Angela Reyes Financial Analyst angelareyes@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Travel, all things accounting, financial reporting |  Tom Richter Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0385 tomr@ig.utexas.edu |
 Demian Saffer Director & Scott Petty Jr. Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences 512-471-6156 demian.saffer@austin.utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics, fault/sediment mechanics, geohydrology More Info |  Sara Oliveira Santos Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow ssantos@ig.utexas.edu Interests: bio-inspired robotics, ecological and experimental fluid mechanics, ocean world exploration More Info |  Mrinal K. Sen Professor and Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology 512-471-0466 mrinal@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, high performance computing, applied math More Info |  Dallas Sherman Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III dsherman@ig.utexas.edu Interests: application of marine electromagnetic methods to exploration, offshore groundwater reservoirs, degradation of subsea arctic permafrost, noise in marine MT data and stability of MT transfer functions, integration of seismic and EM data sets. More Info |
 Chase J. Shyu Postdoctoral Fellow chase.shyu@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, crustal rifting, sedimentary basin, thermochronology, numerical modeling More Info |  Sara Sieberath Assistant Director of Research Administration and Finance 512-471-0306 sara@ig.utexas.edu Roles: Finance, reporting, administrative and HR oversight |  John W. Snedden Program Director 512-471-0452 jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology More Info |  Krista Soderlund Research Associate Professor 512-471-0449 krista@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics More Info |
 Chao Song Postdoctoral Fellow chao.song@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: slow earthquakes, low-frequency earthquakes, tectonic tremor, earthquake source mechanisms, earthquake rupture processes More Info |  Elizabeth Spiers Research Associate elizabeth.spiers@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: ocean worlds, planetary habitability, mass transfer, systems modeling More Info |  Paul Stoffa Professor Emeritus 512-471-6156 pauls@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Michael L. Sweet Co-Program Director 281-787-7001 michael.sweet@austin.utexas.edu Interests: clastic sedimentology, marine geology, reservoir connectivity More Info |
 Frederick W. Taylor Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-0453 fred@ig.utexas.edu Interests: neotectonics, paleoseismology, paleoclimate More Info |  Carla Thomas Science/Technical Program Manager 512-475-6613 carla.thomas@utexas.edu More Info |  Danielle Touma Research Assistant Professor danielle.touma@utexas.edu Interests: extreme climate events, climate variability and change, climate impacts More Info |  Daniel Trugman Program Director dtrugman@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: earthquake science, ground motion prediction, forensic seismology, nuclear monitoring More Info |
 Timothy Urban Director, Texas Space Grant Consortium 512 471 0967 urban@utexas.edu More Info |  Harm Van Avendonk Research Professor 512-471-0429 harm@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic tomography, marine geophysics, geophysical data analysis More Info |  Annie Walker Research Engineering/Scientist Professional 315-559-6433 walkerae@ig.utexas.edu |  Laura M. Wallace Research Professor 512-471-0324 lwallace@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, crustal deformation, earthquakes More Info |
 Tim Whiteaker Research Scientist 512-471-8844 whiteaker@utexas.edu Interests: cyberinfrastructure, geographic information systems, data management More Info |  Mark Wiederspahn Sr. Software Developer/Analyst (Retired) 512-471-0406 markw@ig.utexas.edu |  Chi Yan Research Associate chi.yan@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, magnetic fields, dynamo theory More Info |  Shuai Yan Research Affiliate shuaiy@utexas.edu Interests: subglacial hydrology and geology, airborne geophysics survey, polar ice sheet dynamics |
 Kehua You Research Assistant Professor kehua@ig.utexas.edu Interests: permafrost carbon cycle, Arctic greenhouse gasses, biogeochemical cycle in shallow marine sediments, ocean-sediment interaction, gas hydrate systems, oil and gas seeps, fluid flow and transport More Info |  Duncan A. Young Research Associate Professor 512-471-0485 duncan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics More Info |  Shuo Zhang Postdoctoral Researcher shuo.zhang@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: computational seismology, full waveform inversion, seismic anisotropy, ambient seismic noise, tectonic structure, nonlinear optimization More Info |  Ming Zhang Research Affiliate ming.zhang@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: electromagnetic methods in applied geophysics, forward modeling methods, inversion methods, software development More Info |
 Zeyu Zhao Research Affiliate zeyu@utexas.edu Interests: exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, seismology, inverse problems, high performance computing |