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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.

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MEET OUR DISTINGUISHED POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Current Fellows

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Srisharan Shreedharan

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Subduction zone fault mechanics and earthquake physics
Mentor: Demian Saffer/Laura Wallace/Luc Lavier
Joined: 2021
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Zach Sickmann

Zach Sickmann

Buffler Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis project/ Sand provenance
Mentor: John Snedden
Joined: 2020
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Adam Woodhouse

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Mid-Miocene climate change and evolution of the Orbulina lineage
Mentor: Chris Lowery
Joined: 2021
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Enze Zhang

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Predicting glacier behavior with machine learning
Mentor: Ginny Catania/Daniel Trugman
Joined: 2021
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Past Fellows

Anja Rustishauser

Project: Glaciology and remote sensing
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2018-2021
Currently: Geological Survey of Denmark (researcher)

Sylvia Dee

Sylvia Dee

Project: Paleoclimate modeling
Mentor: Pedro DiNezio
Appointment: 2017-2018
Currently: Rice University (faculty)

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Matthew Weller

Project: Planetary and ice-ocean dynamics of Enceladus and Europa
Mentor: Krista Soderlund
Appointment: 2016-2018
Currently: Brown University (postdoc)

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Kaustubh Thirumalai

Project: Paleoclimate
Mentor: Terry Quinn
Appointment: 2016-2017
Currently: University of Arizona (faculty)

Chastity Aiken

Chastity Aiken

Project: Earthquake source seismology
Mentor: Cliff Frohlich/Jake Walter
Appointment: 2016-2018
Currently: Ifremer (researcher)

Chris Lowery

Chris Lowery

Project: Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis project
Mentor: John Snedden
Appointment: 2015-2018 (Buffler)
Currently: UTIG (researcher)

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Michael Erb

Project: Paleoclimate modeling
Mentor: Charles Jackson
Appointment: 2014-2016
Currently: Northern Arizona University (assistant research professor)

Tim Bartholomaus

Tim Bartholomaus

Project: Ice-ocean interactions in Greenland
Mentor: Ginny Catania
Appointment: 2014-2016
Currently: University of Idaho (faculty)

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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)

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Krista Soderlund

Project: Ocean dynamics of Europa
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2011-2013
Currently: UTIG (researcher)

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Deborah Khider

Project: Paleoclimate proxy calibration
Mentor: Terry Quinn/Charles Jackson
Appointment: 2011-2013
Currently: USC ISI (research scientist)

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Cyril Grima

Project: Antarctica ice-water-bedrock interactions from radar imaging
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2011-2013
Currently: UTIG (researcher)

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Britney Schmidt

Project: Ice-ocean interactions on Europa
Mentor: Don Blankenship
Appointment: 2010-2013
Currently: Georgia Tech (faculty)

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Patrick Fulton

Project: Coupled fluid flow and heat transport
Mentor: Peter Flemings
Appointment: 2010-2012
Currently: Cornell University (faculty)

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