The staff listed below work primarily in this field of study, but they often contribute to work across UTIG. Likewise, staff whose primary discipline is another focus within UTIG often contribute to work in this field and may not be listed below. Other areas of research include: Climate, Polar and Planetary, and Marine Geosciences, Seismology and Tectonics.
| Research Scientists | |||
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 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 |  Alejandro Cardona Research Associate alejandro.cardona@utexas.edu Interests: flow and transport in porous media, geomechanics, methane hydrates, fractured rocks More Info |  Richard A. Denne Program Director 512-471-0452 richard.denne@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: biostratigraphy, mudstones, paleoceanography, sequence stratigraphy 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 |
 William Galloway Professor Emeritus 512-471-0494 galloway@austin.utexas.edu Interests: depositional systems, Gulf of Mexico basin, petroleum geology 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 |  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 |  John W. Snedden Research Professor 512-471-0452 jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology 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 |  Yujiang Xie Research Fellow yujiang.xie@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, seismology, applied mathematics More Info |  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 | |
Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
 Zhen Li Postdoctoral Fellow carlcat@outlook.com More Info |  Tanner Mills Postdoctoral Fellow tanner.mills@utexas.edu Interests: sediment mechanics, fluid flow, geochemistry, geomicrobiology, sedimentology |  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 | |
Technical and Administrative Staff | |||
 Donnie Brooks Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III 512-471-2403 donnie.brooks@austin.utexas.edu |  Summer Li Project Manager summer@ig.utexas.edu Interests: ArcGIS Geoscience database management, microtectonics, structural geology |  Josh O'Connell Research Scientist Associate V josh@ig.utexas.edu 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 |
 Carla Thomas Science/Technical Program Manager 512-475-6613 carla.thomas@utexas.edu More Info |  Annie Walker Research Engineering/Scientist Professional 315-559-6433 walkerae@ig.utexas.edu | ||
Research Affiliates | |||
 Robert Cunningham Research Affiliate/Research Fellow 325-248-5392 robert.cunningham@austin.utexas.edu Interests: petroleum systems, geochemistry, source rocks More Info |  Tim Whiteaker Research Scientist 512-471-8844 whiteaker@utexas.edu Interests: cyberinfrastructure, geographic information systems, data management More Info |  Zeyu Zhao Research Affiliate zeyu@utexas.edu Interests: exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, seismology, inverse problems, high performance computing | |
Graduate Students | |||
 Tolulope Agbaje tqa69@my.utexas.edu Interests: pore pressure, machine learning More Info |  Graciela Lopez Campos graciela.lc@utexas.edu Interests: subduction megathrust modeling, large-strain evolution of subduction systems, discrete faults, porous fluid flow along faults |  Sohini Dasgupta sohini.dasgupta@utexas.edu Interests: carbon capture & sequestration, rock physics, inverse problems, machine learning |  Riley Garrett riley.garrett@austin.utexas.edu Interests: climate dynamics, land-atmospheric interactions, biogeochemistry, Alaska permafrost More Info |
 Juan Gutierrez jgutierrez@utexas.edu Interests: deepwater sedimentology, salt tectonics |  Shuhua Hu sh.hu@utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, seismic inversion, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian inference, machine learning |  Jake Margoshes jake.margoshes@utexas.edu Interests: Seismic Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy, Basin Analysis, Marine Geology, and Petroleum Geology |  Pablo Varela pablovarela@utexas.edu Interests: basin analysis, fluid flow, geomechanics, hydrocarbon migration More Info |
 Timothy Xiong timothy.xiong@utexas.edu Interests: geomechanics, ice systems, computed tomography | |||
Undergraduate Students | |||
 Jazmin Villeda Gomez |  Kylie Greiner Undergraduate Research Assistant kyliegreiner7@gmail.com Interests: planetary geophysics, planetary surface processes, seismology, airborne geophysics. |  Camila van der Maal Undergraduate Research Assistant cvdmaal@utexas.edu Interests: petrophysics, methane hydrates, resedimentation, carbon capture and sequestration |  Ros Visser rosvisser@utexas.edu Interests: petroleum systems, sequence and seismic stratigraphy, source rocks, and machine learning More Info |