Postdoc Scholar in Geophysics focused on Digital Twin development-GEOSCI bei Penn State University

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POSITION SPECIFICS

A Postdoctoral Research Position is available starting October, 2025, in the Department of Geosciences at The Pennsylvania State University. The Postdoctoral Scholar will join a project for developing a Digital Twin framework for Enhanced Rock weathering with a goal of using this computational tool as an end-to-end decision support system. The tool would integrate geochemical weathering and reactivity potential assessment utilizing public geochemical databases with high-resolution (30m) spatial soil characterization. The postdoc would then use simplified reactive transport models and multi-element, multi-end member mixing models to simulate realistic soil-rock mixtures, explicitly incorporating spatial variability, measurement errors and diverse sampling strategies (pooling, grinding). Overall, this new framework would help assess how farmers/companies with different financial resources and risk aversion evaluate tradeoffs in monitoring/reporting costs vs certainty of carbon sequestration, while accounting for soil heterogeniety. 

The Postdoctoral Scholar will work primarily with Prof. Tushar Mittal at Penn State to:

• Develop the computational infrastructure for the Digital Twin utilizing existing code components from Prof. Mittal.  
• Implement models for risk assessment analysis to explore different measurement and rock weathering deployment strategies (both in terms of materials and rate).  
• Use numerical reactive transport models and remote sensing data to improve model prediction for ERW and other soil enhancement strategies.

Qualifications and Requirements: 

A PhD by appointment start date. 

Interested Candidates should submit a cover letter describing their interest in the position and career goals, a CV including publication list, and names and contact information of up to three references.  

 

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