Assistant Project Scientist at U.C. Berkeley

[Barbara A Romanowicz]

An Assistant Project Scientist position is open in the Global Seismology Group at UC Berkeley.

The incumbent will implement a scalable version of the Distributed Finite Difference Method (DFDM, Masson, 2023; Masson and Virieux, 2024; Masson et al., 2024) for seismic wave propagation in a global 3D elastic and attenuating Earth, for implementation in the new HPC facility “Doudna” at NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing center). They will coordinate with collaborators at NERSC on this project and test and benchmark the new code against the Spectral Element Method, specifically the widely used and optimized SPECFEM3D_Globe code. They will also add features necessary for the application to real case scenarios (moment tensor source, anelastic attenuation) and demonstrate its efficiency and accuracy for deep earth modeling applications.

The candidate will participate in the development of an azimuthally anisotropic shear velocity model of the extended upper mantle transition zone in the southwest Pacific using full waveform inversion and shear wave splitting data. Additionally, the candidate will be expected to attend conferences , participate in developing grant proposals/reports and authoring or co-authoring technical papers.

Deadline:

Next  review date: August 30th, 2025, 11:59pm Pacific Time

by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final deadline: September 15th, 2025, 11:59pm Pacific Time.

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

See more details and apply at: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05030