Below is all of our UTIG staff, to see staff by role visit Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Fellows, Scientific Support, and Administrative. To see staff by primary research discipline please visit: Climate, Energy, Polar and Planetary, and Marine Geosciences, Seismology and Tectonics.
 Adrien Arnulf Research Associate 512-471-0376 aarnulf@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, mid-ocean ridges, convergent margins More Info |  Jamie Austin Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0450 jamie@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margin stratigraphy, tsunamigenesic processes on continental margins, scientific ocean drilling More Info |  Nathan Bangs Sr. Research Scientist 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 Associate 512-471-0462 athma.bhandari@utexas.edu Interests: fluid flow measurements in fine-grained rocks, geomechanics, petrophysics, unconventional energy resources More Info |  Don Blankenship Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0489 blank@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Silvia Brizzi Postdoctoral Fellow brizzi.silvia@austin.utexas.edu Interests: subduction dynamics and seismotectonics, megathrust seismicity, mountain building and interactions between surface processes, tectonics and mantle dynamics More Info |  Dillon Buhl Research Scientist Associate III dillon.buhl@utexas.edu |
 Christian Casadio IT Professional casadiochristian@gmail.com |  Ginny Catania Professor 512-471-0403 gcatania@ig.utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate More Info |  Megumi Chikamoto Research Fellow megumi@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Earth system modeling, global carbon cycles, climate-ecosystem linkages More Info |  Gail Christeson Sr. Research Scientist/Associate Director 512-471-0463 gail@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology More Info |
Sheree Courney Chief Business Officer 512-471-0465 sheree@ig.utexas.edu |  Ian W. D. Dalziel Research Professor 512-471-0431 ian@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology More Info |  John Damuth Visiting Research/Scholar damuth@uta.edu More Info | Marcy Davis Engineering Scientist 512-471-0425 marcy@ig.utexas.edu |
 Pedro DiNezio Research Scientist 512-471-0411 pdn@ig.utexas.edu Interests: dynamics, prediction, impacts More Info |  Dan Duncan Engineering Scientist 512-471-0490 dduncan@ig.utexas.edu |  Yi Fang Postdoctoral Fellow yi.fang@utexas.edu Interests: gas hydrate, geothermal energy, geomechanics, geofluids, induced seismicity More Info |  Peter B. Flemings Professor 512-475-8738 pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: basin-scale fluid flow, methane hydrates, shale and mudstone permeability More Info |
 Doug Foster Sr. Research Scientist djfoster@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic wave propagation, inverse problems and applied geophysics More Info |  Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-0460 cliff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquakes, tectonics More Info |  Craig Fulthorpe Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0459 craig@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margins, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary geology 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 |  Patricia E. Ganey-Curry Project Manager 512-471-0408 patty@ig.utexas.edu |  Felicia Garcia-Hildenbrand Senior Research Program Coordinator 512-475-7225 felicia.garcia-hildenbrand@austin.utexas.edu |  John Gerboc Sr. Software Developer/Analyst 512-471-0325 johng@ig.utexas.edu |
 John A. Goff Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics More Info |  Jamin Greenbaum Research Associate 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 Associate 512-471-0377 cgrima@ig.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 Associate 512-471-0415 han@ig.utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, oceanic lithosphere, marine geohazards More Info |  Nicholas W. Hayman Research Scientist 512-471-7721 hayman@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine heology and geophysics, structural geology, tectonics More Info |  Patrick Heimbach Research Professor 512-232-7694 heimbach@utexas.edu Interests: climate More Info |  Thomas Hess Research Scientist Associate V 512-232-5934 thomas_hess@mail.utexas.edu |
 Benjamin Hester Administrative Manager 512-471-0413 ben@ig.utexas.edu |  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 |  Charles Jackson Research Scientist 512-471-0401 charles@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate change, uncertainty quantification, sea level More Info |
 Elizabeth Kelton Senior Administrative Associate 512-471-0417 elizabeth.kelton@austin.utexas.edu |  Scott Kempf Sr. Software Engineer 512-471-0482 scottk@ig.utexas.edu | Jessica Kolstad Kim Grants and Contracts Specialist 512-471-0432 jessica@ig.utexas.edu |  Luc Lavier Associate 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 512-471-0433 lawver@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions More Info |  Gabriel Lotto University Professional (Part-Time) 512-471-7775 gabriel@ig.utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, earthquake rupture, tsunamis, risk and resilience More Info |  Chris Lowery Research Associate cmlowery@utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy More Info |  Angela Marable Sr. Program Coordinator 512-471-0326 angela@ig.utexas.edu |
 Pankaj Mishra Postdoctoral Fellow pkmishra@utexas.edu Interests: computational geoscience, computational and applied mathematics, high-performance scientific computing More Info |  Jamie Morrison Project Manager 936-355-2305 jmorrison@ig.utexas.edu |  Susanne Morrison Senior Human Resources Coordinator susanne@ig.utexas.edu |  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 |  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 |  Yuko Okumura Research Scientist 512-471-0383 yukoo@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change More Info |
 Constantino Panagopulos Communications Specialist 512-574-7376 512-471-0160 costa@ig.utexas.edu |  Jud Partin Research Associate 512-471-6156 jpartin@ig.utexas.edu Interests: paleoclimate, data-model comparisons, tropical climate More Info |  Steve Phillips Research Associate stevep@ig.utexas.edu Interests: gas hydrates, sedimentology, geochemistry More Info |  Robert Porritt Research Engineering/Scientist Associate V rporritt@ig.utexas.edu Interests:seismology, tectonics, subduction, cratons More Info |
 Aaron Price Research Scientist/Engineer Associate III aaron.price@utexas.edu |  Terrence Quinn Professor 512-471-0464 quinn@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate change, paleoclimate, geochemistry More Info |  Cornelia Rasmussen Postdoctoral Fellow crasmussen@utexas.edu Interests: impact cratering, radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry, paleoecology More Info |  Angela Reyes Senior Administrative Associate 512-471-8849 angelareyes@ig.utexas.edu |
 Tom Richter Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0385 tomr@ig.utexas.edu |  Erik Robinson Financial Analyst 512-471-0499 erik@ig.utexas.edu |  Anja Rutishauser Postdoctoral Fellow anja.rutishauser@utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, geophysics applied to glaciological processes, ice-penetrating radar |  Demian Saffer Director & Scott Petty Jr. Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Geological Sciences 512-471-6156 demian.saffer@austin.utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics, fault/sediment mechanics, geohydrology More Info |
 Manasij Santra Postdoctoral Fellow manasij.santra@austin.utexas.edu More Info |  Steffen Saustrup Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0442 steffen@ig.utexas.edu |  Kirk Scanlan Postdoctoral Fellow kirk.scanlan@utexas.edu Interests: planetary radar sounding, radioglaciology, engineering geophysics More Info |  Mrinal K. Sen Professor and Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology/Associate Director 512-471-0466 mrinal@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, high performance computing, applied math More Info |
 Zach Sickmann Postdoctoral Fellow sickmann@utexas.edu Interests: basin analysis, convergent margin tectonics, source-to-sink sediment dispersal, provenance analysis, sedimentology in the Anthropocene More Info |  Sara Sieberath Research Administration Manager 512-471-0306 sara@ig.utexas.edu |  John W. Snedden Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0452 jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology More Info |  Krista Soderlund Research Scientist 512-471-0449 krista@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics More Info |
 Paul Stoffa Professor Emeritus 512-471-6156 pauls@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Frederick W. Taylor Sr. Research Scientist 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 |  Ram Tuvi Postdoctoral Fellow ram@ig.utexas.edu |
 Harm Van Avendonk Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0429 harm@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic tomography, marine geophysics, geophysical data analysis More Info |  Jon Virdell Project Manager 512-471-0408 jvirdell@ig.utexas.edu Interests: geosoftware, data management, cartography More Info |  Laura M. Wallace Research Scientist 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 512-471-0406 markw@ig.utexas.edu |  Kehua You Research Associate kehua@ig.utexas.edu Interests: gas hydrates, hydrogeology, fluid flow and transport More Info |  Duncan A. Young Research Scientist 512-471-0485 duncan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics More Info |  Zeyu Zhao Research Associate zeyu@utexas.edu Interests: exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, seismology More Info |