Vacancy for Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geological Carbon Storage
- in Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project on
geological carbon sequestration funded by the Department of Energy and
Climate Change. The project is to investigate caprocks to a natural
geological CO2 reservoir to better understand the fluid-mineral
reactions with CO2-saturated brines. The caprocks have been sampled in a
drilling campaign funded by Shell. The postdoctoral researcher is
expected to concentrate on modelling reactive transport in the caprock.
She/he will work alongside two experienced post-doctoral researchers
carrying out the geochemical and mineralogical analyses. In Cambridge
the research will complement work on multiphase flow in reservoirs
relevant to geological carbon sequestration being carried out jointly
between Earth Sciences, The Institute of Theoretical Geophysics and the
BP Institute.
The postdoctoral researcher should be trained in the geosciences and
have expertise in one or more of the following 1) modelling reactive
transport in geological settings and 2) the thermodynamics of
fluid-mineral reactions and reaction kinetics. It would be an advantage
if they had experience of geochemical and mineralogical analytical
techniques.
APPLICATION DETAILS:
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-23282/
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