CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Characterization of Hydrogen-Rock Interactions in Sedimentary Basin

• Do you have a PhD in Energy Geosciences, Geochemistry, Geology with an understanding of their applications for energy exploration and storage?
• Conduct innovative research in Deep Earth Imaging science and contribute to the development of imaging and monitoring technologies
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s leading scientific research organisation!

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

In this position you will join the Deep Earth Imaging Future Science Platform . Energy and mineral exports make significant contributions to Australia’s economy. To sustain these exports and reduce their emissions intensity will require advanced subsurface characterisation and monitoring approaches.

Deep Earth Imaging science helps us more precisely image, monitor and understand the significance of subsurface rock properties, which will unlock the resource potential of this vast and relatively under-explored continent and also contribute to the greenhouse abatement technologies. The development of low emissions intensity energy products in Australia will require development of new exploration strategies for clean energy resources, underground hydrogen and compressed air storage. Critical to the efficient deployment of these technologies is the development of fundamental understanding of natural and induced geochemical alterations of mineral, organic and pore structures in crystalline and sedimentary rocks targeted for energy exploration and storage.

As part of this effort, we are seeking an early career scientist specialising in the experimental characterization of hydrogen-rock interactions as a new member of an established team. The successful candidate will develop novel analytical approaches and data processing algorithms contributing to the development of imaging and monitoring technologies of the subsurface across multiple scales.