Postdoctoral Fellow: CO2 Transport in Shale Rocks

The University of Texas at Austin; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow specializing in CO2 mobility and subsurface transport in nanoporous rocks. The position is based at the J.J.

Pickle Research Campus in North Austin, in‑person for one year, with 40 hours per week and an exempt status. The successful candidate will join BEG’s fast‑moving team, focusing on experimental and modeling efforts to bridge lab-scale physics and field-scale applications, with strong emphasis on publishing

Qualifications

• PhD in a geoscience or engineering discipline completed within 3 years.
• Experience with high‑pressure core experiments and petrophysical measurements.
• Strong data analysis and scripting in Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW.

Responsibilities

• Operate and modify gas expansion/liquid transient flow systems to measure CO2 mobility, permeability, diffusion, and adsorption.
• Quantify rock‑fluid interactions and transport degradation under dynamic net confining stress environments to evaluate reservoir stress‑sensitivity.
• Upscale laboratory‑derived petrophysical, diffusion, relative permeability, and stress‑dependent parameters into compositional reservoir models to perform robust sensitivity and production forecast studies.
• Collaborate with lab formulation team to translate fluid‑interface mechanics into numerical transport constraints and prepare technical frameworks for field‑scale pilot deployments.

Skills

High‑pressure core experiments

Petrophysical measurements

Fluid transport phenomena

Data analysis / scripting

Education

PhD in Petrophysics / Geosciences / related field

Tools

CMG GEM

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Job description

The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow specializing in CO2 mobility and subsurface transport in nanoporous rocks. The position is based at the J.J.

Pickle Research Campus in North Austin, in‑person for one year, with 40 hours per week and an exempt status. The successful candidate will join BEG’s fast‑moving team, focusing on experimental and modeling efforts to bridge lab-scale physics and field-scale applications, with strong emphasis on publishing