Academic Professional Track - Texas, United States - Texas A&M University

Description

The Berg-Hughes Center educates geoscientists and engineers by applying principles of subsurface systems to solve challenges associated with the energy industry and energy transition.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaboratively develop the vision to train the next generation of students through the Energy Transition from a primarily carbon-based energy system toward a more diversified subsurface-sourced, energy related solutions portfolio.

The Director will provide leadership, guidance, effective coordination, and oversight of the Berg-Hughes Center to play a major role in the identification and development of the tools required to adapt to quickly evolving opportunities.

The Berg-Hughes Center Director will be expected to lead the Center in developing vigorous and externally funded research programs in collaboration with faculty in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, other research units in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Petroleum Engineering, the TAMU Energy Institute and, externally, with government agencies and labs as well as with the energy industry.

The successful candidate should have broad knowledge to pursue active research in areas including, but not limited to, carbon sequestration, geothermal energy, subsurface energy and natural resources, and/or energy transition critical minerals, using approaches that might include sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary basin evolution and architecture, seismic interpretation, structural geology and tectonics, numerical and/or machine learning techniques or a related field.

The successful candidate also is expected to mentor junior faculty, research scientists, and post-doctoral researchers to become independent geoscientists, aiding them toward achieving their ultimate career choices and guiding them toward raising external funds to support their own research.

The successful candidate also will contribute to graduate mentoring, teaching, and research, and encourage a culture of publishing scientific results in top-tier journals and provide service to the department.

in geology, geophysics, or a related discipline is required at the time of employment, and it is expected the successful candidate will have a minimum of 10 years' experience in academic and/or energy research.